Exclusive: Myanmar's young people take up arms against junta
Three years ago in Myanmar, on February 1, 2021, the military staged a surprise coup and threw the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government in prison. They thereby put an end to the country's decade of quasi-democracy, which had begun in 2011. The Burmese population demonstrated against the power grab, but the crackdown by the Burmese army and police left thousands dead. In December 2022, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, aged 77 at the time, was sentenced to 33 years in jail.
