DM Monitoring
Naypyitaw: Tens of thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday, and thousands more assembled across the country to protest against the coup that took place on Monday, as an internet blackout failed to stifle growing outrage at the military’s ouster of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The protests were the biggest demonstrations in the country since the 2007 Buddhist monk-led Saffron Revolution.
Some estimates put the number of protesters in Yangon at 100,000, and there were reports of large demonstrations in other cities, with rallies condemning the coup that brought Myanmar’s 10-year experiment with democracy to a crashing halt, as media reported.
Crowds in Yangon, the commercial capital, carried red balloons, the color representing Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party (NLD), and chanted: “We don’t want military dictatorship! We want democracy!”
Police with riot shields blocked the path of the protesters at several points in the city, but a huge crowd was able to gather near Yangon City Hall without any clashes.
