Hundreds of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar hit the streets on Sunday as an web blackout didn’t stifle rising outrage on the army’s overthrow of elected chief Aung San Suu Kyi.
The rally adopted the biggest protests to this point on Saturday, when tens of 1000’s got here out in cities throughout the nation to sentence the coup that introduced a 10-year experiment with democracy to a crashing halt.
The surge in common dissent over the weekend overrode a nationwide blockade of the web, comparable in magnitude to an earlier shutdown that coincided with the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and different senior leaders final Monday.
Along with Aung San Suu Kyi and a few of her prime aides, dozens have been detained thus far.
The exact variety of arrests isn’t but recognized, however monitoring group Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners stated on Saturday greater than 150 persons are nonetheless in custody.