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Anti-coup protesters run around their makeshift barricade they burn to make defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Protesters in Myanmar returned to the streets Sunday to press their demands for a return to democracy, just a day after security forces killed more than 100 people in the bloodiest day since last month's military coup. (AP Photo)

Funerals become scenes of Myanmar resistance, more violence

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Anti-coup protesters gesture during a march in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 26, 2021. Protesters against last month's military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers Thursday, a day after staging a &quot;silence strike&quot; in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day. (AP Photo)

Myanmar forces kill scores in deadliest day since coup

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3 Myanmar nationals with bullet wounds cross into India

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters gesture during a march in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 26, 2021. Protesters against last month's military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers Thursday, a day after staging a &quot;silence strike&quot; in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day. (AP Photo)

Myanmar protest deaths reach 320 as US, UK, impose sanctions

Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE - Anti-coup protesters shout slogans during a rally in Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday March 25, 2021. Protesters against last month’s military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers Thursday, a day after staging a “silence strike” in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta uses force on streets; US, UK target finances

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This undated family file photo provided on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, shows Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw in Yangon, Myanmar. A court in Myanmar is scheduled to hold a hearing on Friday, March 12, 2021, for Zaw while covering demonstrations against the military's seizure of power on Feb. 27, 2021, in Yangon. He is facing a charge that could send him to prison for three years. (Thein Zaw family via AP, File)

AP journalist Thein Zaw released from detention in Myanmar

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An arrested protester flashes the three-fingered salute while onboard a bus getting out of Insein prison to go to an undisclosed location Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta frees hundreds held for anti-coup protests

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - People push a stretcher with body of a man who a doctor said was shot and killed Tuesday, March 23, 2021, by Myanmar security forces during anti coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar. Opposition against the Feb 1 military coup continues in Myanmar. The civil disobedience movement has used widespread boycotts, strikes and other actions to demand that power be returned to the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta defends crackdown, accuses Suu Kyi of graft

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This undated family file photo provided on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, shows Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw in Yangon, Myanmar. A court in Myanmar is scheduled to hold a hearing on Friday, March 12, 2021, for Zaw while covering demonstrations against the military's seizure of power on Feb. 27, 2021, in Yangon. He is facing a charge that could send him to prison for three years. (Thein Zaw family via AP, File)

AP journalist, other media workers return to Myanmar court

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, talks to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas during a European Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 22, 2021. The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uyghur Muslims in a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights offenders around the world, despite warnings that Beijing could retaliate. (Aris Oikonomou/Pool Photo via AP)

EU targets 11 Myanmar officials over coup, crackdown

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Anti-coup protesters hold red balloon, calling for foreign intervention to aid them in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 22, 2021. Protests against the coup continued in cities and town across the country, including Mandalay and Yangon. (AP Photo)

Myanmar frees detained BBC journalist as protests continue

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Friend: 2 Australian agriculture consultants held in Myanmar

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

A man runs past a road barricade and burning debris Monday, March 22, 2021, in Mandalay, Myanmar. The BBC said Monday that a journalist from its Burmese-language service was released by authorities in Myanmar but gave no details, as protesters in the Southeast Asian nation continued their broad civil disobedience movement against last month's military coup. (AP Photo)

U.S., EU ramp up sanctions amid junta’s crackdown on democracy in Myanmar

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Protesters prepare to defend themselves as they gather in Tarkata township, Yangon, Myanmar Saturday, March 20, 20201. Protests against last month's military takeover continued Saturday in cities and town across Myanmar despite a crackdown by security forces that has taken more than 200 lives. (AP Photo)

Doctors protest in Myanmar as crackdown claims more lives

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Wife of police officer who fled Myanmar following a military coup hands over her infant to her husband as they prepare food at an undisclosed place in Mizoram, a state bordering Myanmar, India, Friday, March 19, 2021. Several Myanmar police officers who fled to India after defying army orders to shoot opponents of last month’s coup in their country are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to not repatriate them and provide them political asylum on humanitarian grounds. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Fleeing coup, Myanmar police refugees in India seek asylum

By ANUPAM NATH - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Free Burma Rangers, members of the humanitarian group Free Burma Rangers carry out medical checkups on villagers in the northern Karen State, Myanmar Feb. 25, 2021. The group has been bringing aid to some of the 8,000 ethnic people forced to flee their homes by an ongoing local offensive by the Myanmar army aimed at increasing the military’s presence in the remote region. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

In Myanmar’s hinterland, army uproots ethnic Karen villagers

By JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

State railway employee load belongings after being evicted from their homes Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Mandalay, Myanmar. State railway workers in Mandalay have been threatened with eviction to force them to end their support for the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) against military rule. (AP Photo)

Striking Myanmar rail workers move out as protests continue

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A police officer who fled from Myanmar following a military coup looks out to the mountains from an undisclosed location bordering Myanmar, in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Villagers in Mizoram have given shelter to 34 Myanmar police personnel and 1 fire fighter, who crossed over to the state over the last two weeks. They refused to give their names to an Associated Press photographer who met them this week in an undisclosed location in Mizoram state. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Fleeing Myanmar police: We defied orders to kill protesters

By Anupam Nath - Associated Press

People watch as a row of vehicles by security forces are parked on a road in Mandalay, Myanmar Friday, March 19, 2021. The authorities in Myanmar have arrested a spokesman for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party as efforts to restrict information about protests against last month's military takeover are tightened. (AP Photos)

2 journalists detained as Myanmar junta clamps down on press

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Myanmar workers, mostly from garment and shoe factories, take part in a May Day march in Yangon, Myanmar. Garment workers in Myanmar are urging major international brands to denounce the recent military coup there and put more pressure on factories to protect workers from being fired or harassed — or worse arrested and killed for participating in protests. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar garment workers urge global brands to denounce coup

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press