Junta still struggling with backlash while opposition wants end to military rule

One year on: Protesters demonstrating on Feb 22, 2021, against the military coup in Mandalay. — AFP

HOURS before Myanmar’s new parliament was due to convene last February, troops rounded up lawmakers in dawn raids, ending a brief democratic interlude and setting the stage for months of bloodshed.

A year later the country’s latest junta is struggling to contain the backlash unleashed by its power grab, with daily clashes and swathes of the country outside of its control.