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Myanmar activists vow to defy junta with strike on coup anniversary

FILE PHOTO: Sithu Maung, an elected member of parliament in the 2020 election, aims a gun at a training camp in an area controlled by ethnic Karen rebels, Karen State, Myanmar, Sept 12, 2021. (Reuters)

Myanmar's military rulers have threatened to jail anti-coup protesters who take part in a "silent strike" on Tuesday, a year since the generals seized power, as the United States, Britain and Canada imposed new sanctions.

The neighbouring country has been in chaos since Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and other figures from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party were rounded up in raids, accused by the junta of rigging a 2020 election the NLD won.

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