Correspondent in Asia
The anthem resounds as in an urban cathedral, under the steel beams of the motorway bridge, covering the thunderous rumor of mopeds and traffic jams in Yangon.
Sitting on the dusty sidewalk, wearing white plastic hard hats or baseball caps, their faces covered with surgical masks, hundreds of young people sing in chorus in a good-natured atmosphere in Myay Ni Gone, one of the nerve center of the economic capital of Burma.
On this video filmed by a demonstrator, we find there bank employees, students, civil servants, all mobilized to reject the military coup, and demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, put under lockdown on the 1st. last february.
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But the Burmese youth are singing on a volcano, this Wednesday, February 24.
A few cables away, this fairground atmosphere gives way to a palpable tension, marked by clashes between the police and
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