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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maung Maung

Life in Myanmar today: ‘My brother’s legs were slashed with knives for liking a Facebook post’

I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight.

Only three months before, the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in the general election had filled people with joy. Now we were plunged into terrifying darkness.

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