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'Absolute hell': One year since Myanmar military coup / V000_9XB9AZ
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"After almost one year since the coup, in Myanmar we still have many people being killed every single day by the military, and the world is not watching," says a Yangon resident
Another resident says: "This one year after the coup has been absolutely a hell for me."
Hours before Myanmar's new parliament was due to convene last February, troops rounded up lawmakers in dawn raids, ending a brief democratic interlude and setting the stage for months of bloodshed.
A year later the country's latest junta is struggling to contain the backlash unleashed by its power grab, with daily clashes and swathes of the country outside of its control.
Almost 1,500 civilians have been killed and over 11,000 arrested in its ongoing crackdown, according to a local monitor, with rights groups accusing junta troops of torture and extrajudicial killings.
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