‘Do or die’: Myanmar’s junta may have stirred up a hornets’ nest

Almost a year on from the coup, resistance to the military is growing stronger and more organised

On Sunday morning, a small group of protesters walked together in Kyimyindaing township, Yangon, waving bunches of eugenia and roses. They carried a banner reading: The only real prison is fear and the real freedom is freedom from fear".

The words are famously those of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose sentencing by the junta to two years in detention was announced on Monday.