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The Fifth Floor: Myanmar: Reporting the coup

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Military supporters carrying a portrait of General Min Aung Hlaing as they  celebrate the coup

05/02/2021 GMT

Myanmar: Reporting the coup

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Myanmar: Reporting the coup

Protests, civil disobedience and fear as Myanmar's new military rulers take control

The military coup in Myanmar has brought protests and fear, with dark memories of the country's long years under repressive military rule.

It’s less than a week since a military coup in Myanmar, staged as a new session of parliament was set to open. BBC Burmese editor Soe Win Than tells us about events leading up to the coup, and reactions in Myanmar, where the transition to democracy has proved short-lived. 

My Home Town:  Changwon, South Korea 
Julie Yoonnyung Lee of BBC Korean takes us to her hometown of Changwon in South Korea to ride bicycles and admire the cherry blossom.

Unwitching Assam 
Birubala Rabha grew up in India's north-eastern state of Assam believing in witches and witchcraft. But after encounters with witch-doctors she lost her belief, and has become a campaigner, helping establish tough anti-witch hunting laws. Soutik Biswas of BBC Delhi tells her story. 

Possibly Putin's palace 
President Putin has categorically denied ownership of a splendid palace and estate revealed in a video made by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Olga Ivshina of BBC Russian describes the stand-out details of the property, and the reaction of Russians to the story. 

Lost Dreams 
An Algerian teacher who sits exams alongside his students to support them, and a Syrian refugee in Austria who made Christmas cards for her neighbours to break down barriers.  These are two stories from a BBC Arabic series called Lost Dreams, as we hear from Shereen Nanish at BBC Amman.   


(Photo: Pro-coup marchers in Naypyitaw. Credit: Reuters)

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