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An anti-coup protester flashes the three-fingered salute while wearing a headband that reads R2P, which means Responsibility to Protect, during a gathering in Ahlone township in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, April 12, 2021. The protesters have called for foreign intervention to aid them under the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, devised to deal with matters such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo)

Myanmar’s ruling junta issues fresh charges for Suu Kyi

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Protesters chant slogans and march in the street of Myaynigone township during the anti-coup demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 9, 2021. An information blackout under Myanmar's military junta worsened Thursday as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermittently inaccessible on several networks. (AP Photo)

US urges arms embargo and sanctions against Myanmar military

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 4, 2021, file photo, young demonstrators participate in an anti-coup mask strike in Yangon, Myanmar. Many in Myanmar have found a safer, more substantive way to protest the country’s military coup. Instead of facing down heavily armed solders from behind flimsy barricades, they're holding online rummage sales using sites like Facebook. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar’s online pop-up markets raise funds for protest

By JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters run to avoid military forces during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday March 31, 2021. The Southeast Asian nation has been wracked by violence since the military ousted a civilian-led government on February 1 and began to forcibly put down protests. (AP Photo)

Junta’s foes woo ethnic allies with new Myanmar constitution

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Anti-coup protesters display placards as they gather in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March 16, 2021. A grassroots movement has sprung up across the country to challenge the military's seizure of power with almost daily protests that the army has tried to crush with increasingly deadly violence. (AP Photo)

Deadly violence resumes in Myanmar after peaceful protests

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Myanmar nationals living in Thailand hold pictures of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi as they protest against the military coup in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Nava Sangthong)

UN calls for reversal of Myanmar coup and condemns violence

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters display pictures of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Police in Myanmar repeatedly used tear gas and rubber bullets Tuesday against crowds protesting last month's coup, but the demonstrators regrouped after each volley and tried to defend themselves with barricades as standoffs between protesters and security forces intensified. (AP Photo)

Southeast Asian nations urge halt to violence in Myanmar

By NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters raise their hands with clenched fists during a rally near the Mandalay Railway Station in Mandalay, Myanmar, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. In the month since Feb. 1 coup, the mass protests occurring each day are a sharp reminder of the long and bloody struggle for democracy in a country where the military ruled directly for more than five decades. (AP Photo)

AP PHOTOS: 1 month in Myanmar under military control

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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a painting of letters that reads, &quot;WE WANT DEMOCRACY,&quot; on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

2 Myanmar protesters killed by police fire, several injured

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Demonstrators protest against the military junta's arrest and chagrining of National League for Democracy party lawmakers, Mandalay region Chief Minister Zaw Myint Maung and Mayor Ye Lwin, outside Aung Myay Thar Zan Township court in Mandalay, Myanmar, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, Wednesday, in one of largest protests yet of a coup, despite warnings from a U.N. human rights expert that recent troop movements could indicate the military was planning a violent crackdown. (AP Photo)

Myanmar protests focus on junta’s economic support

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Demonstrators display pictures of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power this month to reinstate the elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar police file new charge against Aung San Suu Kyi

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Myint Thu, ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Myanmar to Geneva, listens during the Human Rights Council special session on &quot;the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar&quot; at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in Myanmar is take in person and in virtualle due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN rights body adopts watered-down text on Myanmar coup

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Demonstrators with placards shout slogans against the military coup during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Large crowds demonstrating against the military takeover in Myanmar again defied a ban on protests Thursday, even after security forces ratcheted up the use of force against them and raided the headquarters of the political party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi a day earlier. (AP Photo)

Ethnic minorities protest Myanmar coup, as opposition grows

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In this image made from video, dozens of police show their support for pro-democracy supporters denouncing last week's government coup Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Bardo village, Kayah State, Myanmar. (Khunbwe Mue via AP)

Myanmar coup response by China, Thailand more muted

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

In this image from video, protesters wearing hard hats flash the three-fingered salute while they march in Yangon, Myanmar Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. The military authorities in charge of Myanmar broadened a ban on social media following this week’s coup, shutting access to Twitter and Instagram, while street protests continued to expand Saturday as people gathered again to show their opposition to the army takeover. (AP Photo)

Thousands protest army takeover in Myanmar’s biggest city

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Supporters show a three-finger salute of protest while four arrested activists make a court appearance in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Hundreds of students and teachers have taken to Myanmar's streets to demand the military hand power back to elected politicians, as resistance to a coup swelled with demonstrations in several parts of the country. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta blocks internet access as coup protests expand

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In this image from a video taken on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, Win Htein flashes the three fingers protest gesture as a symbol of defiance in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The 79-year old Win Htein, a senior member from the party of Myanmar’s deposed national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has become the latest prominent politician to be arrested as the country’s new military government seeks to deal with continuing resistance to its Monday seizure of power. (AP Photo)

Myanmar resistance to coup builds despite army’s pressures

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Pedestrians pass by a graffiti reading as &quot;don't want dictatorship&quot; in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2021. Myanmar's new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday's coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo)

Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup

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FILE - In this April 24, 2019, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The military coup on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 deposed national leader Aung San Suu Kyi a little over a year after Chinese President Xi Jinping made a show of support to her with the first visit by a head of state from Beijing to Myanmar since 2001 and 33 agreements on a wide range of issues. (Fred Dufour/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Coup a further complication for tricky Myanmar-China ties

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Residents view and listen from their balcony during a noise barrage campaign in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Scores of people in Myanmar’s largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country’s military. (AP Photo)

Myanmar charges Suu Kyi, giving legal basis to detain her

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