Taking down a tarnished icon
Feb 05, 2021
3 minutes
By Amy Gunia
PHOTOGRAPH BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Brief is reported by Madeleine Carlisle, Suyin Haynes, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache and Olivia B. Waxman
THE NEWS THAT AUNG SAN SUU KYI HAD BEEN OVERTHROWN IN A COUP SPREAD THROUGH MYANMAR LIKE A SHOCK WAVE. “Most of the citizens 100% depend on her,” says Kyaw Kyaw, a 28-year-old LGBTQ activist who lives in Yangon, the Southeast Asian nation’s largest city. “Everyone was frustrated and scared.”
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