Five Myanmar voices on a year in turmoil

Insights into life under the military regime

A man holds a National League for Democracy flag during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon on March 27. The democratically elected NLD was ousted in the Feb. 1 putsch. © Reuters

EMILY FISHBEIN and KYAW HSAN HLAING, Contributing writers

July 5, 2021 08:00 JST

BANGKOK -- Since Myanmar's military seized power on Feb. 1, the country has been in turmoil and economic decline. Hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated, while government and private sector workers have joined a civil disobedience movement seeking to strangle the military's economic and infrastructural base.