Myanmar doctors threaten to stop work in protest against coup


File photo taken on Dec 19, 2020 shows a doctor treating a woman diagnosed with Covid-19 at the Ayeyarwady Covid Centre at the Thuwana football stadium in Yangon. - AFP

YANGON (Reuters): "Dictatorship must fail," read the writing on the back of one Myanmar doctor's hazmat suit in a statement of defiance against Monday's (Feb 1) military coup.

Other medics in at least 20 government hospitals rallied to a campaign of civil disobedience against the generals who overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday and cut short a tentative transition to democracy.

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