The streets of Burma had not known such silence for nearly two months.
On Wednesday, after several weeks of daily protests against the military junta that toppled the elected government, supporters of the civil disobedience movement once again showed ingenuity.
Across the country, storefronts lowered the curtains, street vendors were absent and residents remained cloistered in their homes, in a movement of "
general and silent strike.
"
".
A new form of protest, wonderfully coordinated despite the cut-off of mobile internet, the main channel for accessing the web in the country.
Above all, the best way for the demonstrators to oppose the coup, while remaining safe from the bullets of the Tatmadaw, the nickname of the Burmese armed forces.
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But after the calm comes the storm.
Thursday and Friday, the demonstrations resumed with a vengeance in the land of a Thousand Pagodas.
These last two days, at
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