ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Fear grips Myanmar with the military back in charge, after the coup on Feb. 1.⁣ ⁣ With the abrupt seizure of power by generals, the people of Myanmar are again in the military’s cross hairs — and increasingly shut off from the world. Although the putsch, led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the army chief, was itself bloodless, the military has resorted to familiar tactics in the days since: dozens of arrests, beatings by mysterious thugs, telecommunications outages and, this time, social media bans targeting Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. An entire class of people — poets, painters, reporters and rap artists among them — has gone into hiding.⁣ ⁣ Activists released hundreds of red balloons over Yangon, expressing their hope that the elected leaders detained in the coup would be free again. The color — later pink, after red balloons sold out — symbolized the National League for Democracy party, which had, until Monday, led the civilian government with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at its head.⁣ ⁣ By Saturday, balloons were not enough, and the familiar footfall of protesters resounded in the city. As armed police officers stood behind riot shields, marchers called for “democracy to rise, military dictatorship to fall” and sang protest anthems that once brought prison sentences.⁣ ⁣ Thousands of people in hard hats and face masks marched in Yangon, the commercial capital of Myanmar, in the largest rallies since the coup. But the world could not watch. Live social-media feeds of the protests were abruptly shut off as mobile internet and then broadband services were disrupted across the country, just as they had been since the coup.⁣ ⁣ Also on Saturday, in Mandalay, convoys of hundreds of cars and motorcycles paraded through the city at night, honking their support for the protest movement. Soldiers and police officers stood with their weapons drawn.⁣ ⁣ Since the coup, cities across Myanmar have resounded with the din of clanging pots, pans, gongs and empty water jugs, a traditional send-off for the devil, which, in this case, wears army green.⁣ ⁣ Tap the link in our bio for the latest from Myanmar. ⁣」2月7日 5時11分