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Myanmar protesters wear flowers to mark Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday

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  • 송고시간 2021-06-20 02:40
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Flowers tucked into a bun have long been a signature look of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo by= AFP/JOHN Macdougall)

[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] YANGON: Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar donned flowers in their hair on Saturday (Jun 19) to mark the birthday of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest and is due to face court again next week, AFP reported.

 Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government was overthrown in a Feb 1 coup that sparked mass protests and renewed clashes between the military and ethnic rebel armies in border regions. Flowers tucked into a bun have long been a signature look of Aung San Suu Kyi, who turns 76 on Saturday. Many replicated the floral hairstyle and uploaded pictures onto social media across Myanmar on Saturday. Among them was Myanmar Miss Universe beauty queen Thuzar Wint Lwin, who wore red flowers in her hair and wrote: "May our leader be healthy."


In Yangon's north, protesters put up posters on power lines wishing Aung San Suu Kyi a happy birthday and expressing solidarity. "Happy Birthday Mother Suu. We are right behind you," the signs read. In the border region of Karen state, some rebel soldiers were photographed holding their guns and yellow, white and purple posies and single flowers tucked behind their ears.