Myanmar: The revolution will be Facebook-lived


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Feb 2021

A journalist and a police officer take pictures of each other as people protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar February 23, 2021. Picture taken February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

(Reuters) - When he heard soldiers had taken power in Myanmar again, Thar Lon Zaung Htet hurried to the office of his news agency in Yangon, grabbed a few essentials and carefully locked up.

He has not been back.

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