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Myanmar’s deadly spiral: One year after coup, can civil war be avoided?

By France24
05 February 2022   |   4:05 pm
Is there no stopping all-out civil war in Myanmar? On the first anniversary of the coup that ended power sharing between Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and a military whose candidates had just been trounced in a general election, a silent strike took place to protest the brutal crackdown against calls to return to civilian rule. Can peaceful protest still work?

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