How Myanmar's post-coup violence is transforming a generation

Bloodshed leads to soul-searching in majority Burman community

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Cho, a Yangon-based worker for female empowerment, holds a poster at an anti-coup protest in Myanmar. Before the violence of the coup, she says, "we never realized how badly the soldiers were behaving" in other parts of the country. (Courtesy of Cho)

THIN LEI WIN, Contributing writer

YANGON -- The arson attacks and evening raids by soldiers and police that followed Myanmar's Feb. 1 coup gave 25-year-old Cho a glimpse of what life must be like in parts of the country where the military has waged war for decades.

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