19 Feb 2021

Kiwi in Myanmar fears dictatorship on the way

From Morning Report, 8:17 am on 19 February 2021

A New Zealander living in Myanmar fears the country is lurching back to the "dark ages" of a bloody dictatorship.

On 1 February, a military coup removed the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Her party won a resounding victory at the election in November, but the military said the vote was fraudulent. Suu Kyi is now under house arrest and hundreds of activists and opposition leaders have also been detained.

Corin Dann spoke with Nuala - who lives in Yangon with her husband and four children - about the protests that have been raging for three weeks against the coup.