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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emily Fishbein

Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war

Hip-hop dancers protest in Yangon, February 2021.
Hip-hop dancers protest in Yangon, February 2021. Composite: Kenji

Early one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and buckets of paint. In the faint light of dawn, they quickly completed their task and dispersed.

“I felt excited and nervous. I was scared too, because I didn’t want to get caught,” says Tu Tu, a pseudonym for the group’s organiser.

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