Coups d'etat
Anti-coup protesters burn tires and chant slogans with banner read ''The Kamayut strike will be fight for to the end when we get victory" during the demonstration against the military coup in Kamayut township Yangon, Monday, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo)
China's UN envoy: Myanmar violence could lead to civil war

By Edith M. Lederer May. 03, 2021 09:48 PM EDT

Anti-coup protesters run after seeing police and soldiers arrive to disperse their demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Demonstrations have continued in many parts of the country since Saturday's meeting of leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as have arrests and beatings by security forces despite an apparent agreement by junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to end the violence. (AP Photo)
UN calls for return to democracy in Myanmar, end to violence

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 30, 2021 01:53 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 21, 2021, file photo, armed police remove makeshift blockages set up by protesters as they patrol streets in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Political turmoil and disruptions following the coup in Myanmar could undo years of progress and double the number of its people living in poverty to nearly half the population, a United Nations report said Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/File)
UN report says Myanmar poverty could double from coup chaos

By Elaine Kurtenbach Apr. 30, 2021 01:44 AM EDT

Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute, holding banner read " Yangon Strike will defeat all enemies" during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders have demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Myanmar during an emergency summit in Jakarta with its top general and coup leader. (AP Photo)
Myanmar protests continue after ASEAN peace initiative

Apr. 26, 2021 12:13 PM EDT

Activists ride their bicycles as they flash a three-finger salute of defiance during a rally called 'bike for Myanmar' against the military coup in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders met Myanmar's top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
ASEAN leaders tell Myanmar coup general to end killings

By Niniek Karmini Apr. 23, 2021 09:51 PM EDT

A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro places his image on a car during a gathering commemorating the 1964 military coup that established a decades-long dictatorship, in the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces jointly resigned the previous day following Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's government celebrates military coup anniversary

By Mauricio Savarese And Diane Jeantet Mar. 31, 2021 07:46 PM EDT

State railway employees sit with their belongings after being evicted from their home 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

Mar. 20, 2021 04:33 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, workers in the Great Forever factory stitch clothes in the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zone outside 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 Mar. 19, 2021 07:10 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Mar. 03, 2021 06:48 PM EST
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Demonstrators gather in an intersection to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military's seizure of power. (AP Photo)
Mass anti-coup protests in Myanmar as UN warns of crackdown

Feb. 17, 2021 11:25 AM EST

Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses her statement during the Human Rights Council special session on "the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar" 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 Feb. 12, 2021 06:35 AM EST

Demonstrators in traditional costumes march with national flags 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

Feb. 11, 2021 09:28 AM EST

Protesters run after police fire warning-shots and use water cannons to disperse them during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Police cracked down Tuesday on the demonstrators protesting against Myanmar’s military takeover who took to the streets in defiance of new protest bans. (AP Photo)
Myanmar junta cracks down on crowds defying protest ban

Feb. 09, 2021 05:18 AM EST

A masked protester stands near a burning barricade during a protest to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Haiti's president alleges coup conspiracy, says 20 arrested

By Evens Sanon Feb. 07, 2021 11:24 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, vehicles make their ways on a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The military coup in Myanmar is unlikely to do the country’s struggling economy any good at all. The country once considered a promising last frontier has languished as the pandemic added to its challenges. (AP Photo/File)
Military coup yet another blow for Myanmar's sagging economy

By Elaine Kurtenbach And Victoria Milko Feb. 05, 2021 02:41 AM EST

People clap to make noise as they participate in a civil disobedience action to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2021. About 70 recently elected lawmakers defied the new military government on Thursday by convening a symbolic meeting of the Parliament that was prevented from opening. They signed their oaths of office at a government guesthouse in the capital, Naypyitaw, where about 400 of them were detained in the aftermath of the takeover. (AP Photo)
Resistance to coup grows despite Myanmar's block of Facebook

Feb. 04, 2021 06:46 AM EST

In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, Health workers wait to receive the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine at the Ayeyarwaddy COVID treatment center in Yangon, Myanmar. Medical workers across Myanmar have begun a civil disobedience protest against Monday, Feb. 1, 2021's coup, pinning red ribbons and declaring they won’t work for the military government.(AP Photo/Thein Zaw, File)
Health workers start anti-coup protests in virus-hit Myanmar

By Victoria Milko Feb. 03, 2021 07:05 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2019, file photo, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer speaks during the California GOP fall convention in Indian Wells, Calif. California Democratic leaders are being criticized after attempting to link the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with efforts to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Republican Party of Orange County Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, launched a new round of fundraising appeals for the proposed recall. Among potential GOP candidates, Faulconer has established a committee to begin raising money. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
California Democrats see backlash after recall 'coup' claims

By Michael R. Blood Jan. 13, 2021 07:40 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, pro-democracy demonstrators march to the German Embassy in central Bangkok, Thailand. Fed up with an archaic educational system and enraged by the military's efforts to keep control over their nation, a student-led campaign has shaken Thailand’s ruling establishment with the most significant campaign for political change in years. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
Thai student-protesters aim for ambitious political change

By Grant Peck And Chris Blake Oct. 27, 2020 11:42 AM EDT

Malians supporting the recent overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita gather to celebrate in the capital Bamako, Mali Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Hundreds marched in the streets of Mali's capital Friday to celebrate the overthrow of Keita, as the West African country's longtime political opposition backed the military's junta plan to eventually hand over power to a civilian transitional government. Placards in French read "Long live Mali, Long live the CNSP", the french acronym for the junta calling themselves the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, and "We ask ECOWAS to respect the will of the Malian people". (AP Photo)
Thousands in Mali's capital welcome president's downfall

By Baba Ahmed Aug. 21, 2020 01:17 PM EDT