08/02/2021 // A protest in Thandwe, a seaport town in southwest Rakhine state. 

Thandwe, Rakhine state. A protester holds a sign with the message: "We don't want a military dictatorship".

The three-finger salute is a symbol of resistance in the movie Hunger Games and has been adopted by Thai protesters last year as a sign of defiance against the military junta which took power in 2014 in a coup. Neighbouring Myanmar protesters have in turn chosen to rally behind it.

Thandwe, Rakhine State. A protester holds a sign with the message: "Do not ruin the lives of the students"

Thandwe, Rakhine State. Aung San Suu Kyi, secretary general and leader of the NLD is under house arrest like most of her party's MP since Monday when the army raided the opposition at dawn, on the day the new Parliament should have been sworn in.

Protesters parted peacefully at the end of the march while agreeing to meet on the next mornings until the restoration of a civil government. Police violence occurred in other cities such as Mandalay and in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.

08/02/2021 - Protesters met around Sule Pagoda, downtown Yangon.

A banner with the message "Let the dictatorship fall" is held over a bridge in downtown Yangon.

A protester holds a sign with a message in Burmese: "I am small too but not evil", referring to short-heighted army general Min Aung Hlaing ("MAL"), who seized absolute power by a coup d'Etat on February 1st, overthrowing the NLD elected government.

A protester holds a sign full of hashtags. With the increasing connectivity in Myanmar, Twitter has seen many new users from the country joining the app in the recent days in an attempt to amplify the voices in the streets. 

Dozens of thousands of people on foot or bike protested every day in Yangon and most of the cities in Myanmar despite the emergency state and barricades put up on main avenues.

09/02/2021 - More people turned up the next day in Thandwe, Rakhine State to protest against the overthrow of the civil government. A man holds a sign in Burmese: "May Mother Suu be healthy". ASSK, 75, is still under house arrest, as during the 1990's. People walk along a string to protect the march against traffic.

Millions of people have joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), which includes a general strike initiated by doctors in Mandalay from February 3rd. Justice for Myanmar is also a collective researching the business interests of the military junta.

The man in the center holds a sign with the message: "For those who have illegally seized public power : Return power to a legally elected people's government"

A man bangs a pot to protest against MAL's coup. Every evening at 8 PM, Myanmar citizens have gathered on their balconies and doorsteps to bang loudly on their pots and pans, a traditional way to chase evil.

09/02/2021 - Downtown Yangon, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against the military coup. Spidermen were there too.

A man waves the flag of the NLD party in a street of Yangon, which have been dismantled by a military coup a week ago, after having won national elections in a landslide in November 2020.

Young people came en masse to the protest in downtown Yangon to reclaim their future after a decade of relative liberalisation of the country.

A woman speaks in a microphone in the middle of a protest crowd in downtown Yangon.

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• Episode 2 : Salin in central Burma and Lashio, Shan state
• Episode 3 : Shwedaung and Pyay, Upper Burma
• Episode 4 : Monywa region & back to Yangon
• Episode 5 : Thandwe (Rakhine) & Pyay (Bago Region)
  
• Episode 6 : Back to Yangon and Shwedaung
• Episode 7 : Muse & Lashio, Shan State
• Episode 8 : Ngapali (Rakhine State), Yangon, Pyay & Monywa
• Episode 9 : Shwedaung & Salin
• Episode 10 : Yangon & Monywa
• Episode 11 : Back to Yangon & Monywa
• Episode 12 : The Battle of Yangon & Lashio, Shan State
• Episode 13 : Back to Monywa & Yangon 
• Episode 14 : Holding the ground in Yangon
• Episode 15 : Pyay, Mandalay and Yangon