More than two weeks have passed since Myanmar’s military detained elected officials and seized total power in a coup. Now a resistance is in full swing. Most urban protesters just want their democracy back. But Myanmar’s ethnic minorities say this uprising must go much further, beyond restoring the status quo, to resist the army’s colonization of Indigenous people. The World’s Patrick Winn reports.
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