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🇲🇲 Myanmar LGBTQ communities are protesting against Myanmar Military Coup. Proud of them❤️

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Today in Myanmar 🇲🇲 A couple protested for their future babies Respect❤️ SAVE MYANMAR CITIZENS 🕊️

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Today in Myanmar 🇲🇲 A couple protested for their future babies Respect❤️ SAVE MYANMAR CITIZENS 🕊️

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Thousands rally again in Myanmar against military coup

Thousands of chanting protesters march in downtown Yangon, backed by a din of car horns, demanding the release of the country’s ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, detained on Monday as the military staged a coup. They hold up banners – including some saying “We do not want military dictatorship” – and the signature red flags of Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy (NLD) party. Video and text by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

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Elyse Russo and Alexa Mencia at NewsNation Now:

WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — The United States will immediately review sanctions laws and take “appropriate action” after Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup against the democratically elected government, President Joe Biden said on Monday, calling for a concerted international response to press them to relinquish power.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the Myanmar government, was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early Monday morning raids. The country, also known as Burma, has been a U.S. democracy promotion project for decades, though there have been recent and serious concerns about its backsliding into authoritarianism.

“The military’s seizure of power in Burma, the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials, and the declaration of a national state of emergency are a direct assault on the country’s transition to democracy and the rule of law,” Biden said in a statement.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won a landslide 83% in a Nov. 8 election. The army called its takeover a response to election fraud.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had called on Myanmar military leaders to release Suu Kyi and others detained. Meanwhile, the White House said it opposed any attempt to alter the outcome of Myanmar’s Nov. 8 elections, while vowing “action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed.”

“The United States removed sanctions on Burma (Myanmar) over the past decade based on progress toward democracy. The reversal of that progress will necessitate an immediate review of our sanction laws and authorities, followed by appropriate action,” Biden said in a statement. “The United States will stand up for democracy wherever it is under attack.”

Biden called on the military in Myanmar to lift all restrictions on telecommunications and to refrain from violence against civilians.