A New Zealander living in Myanmar fears the country is lurching back to the "dark ages" of a bloody dictatorship.
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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.
Nuala has lived in Yangon with her husband and four children for a number of years and spoke to Morning Report about the protests that have been raging for three weeks against the coup.
"They're not backing down," she said.
"They're not happy with these internet outages that have been happening every night now for the past four nights, everyone's speculating about what does that mean what are the junta doing while the internet is down?"
People have been off work for weeks now, Nuala said.
Young people she knows are in disbelief.
"They had thought things had changed, they were looking forward to a new future," she said.
"They don't want to go back to those dark ages that their parents have spoken about."
Aung San Suu Kyi is known in the country as 'the lady' and has incredible support in the country, Nuala said.
But while people want her released, they're fighting for democracy itself, she said.
A lot of people are hoping for more help from the outside world but they also want people to be watching the military as witnesses, she said.
"Mainly they want people to be aware, they want people to be watching."
She said it's difficult to get out of the country at the moment, only relief flights are operating.
