Striking government schoolteachers from Yangon's North Okkalapa Township demonstrate their opposition to the coup on February 9, 2021. (Frontier)

Civil servants increasingly quit their desks to resist the coup

Across Myanmar, staff are walking out of government offices to oppose military rule, despite pressure from their superiors and threats of punishment from the junta.

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