Internet activity drops to 15% of normal levels for second night running as coup leaders deploy soldiers to clear protesters with rubber bullets

Myanmar’s junta ordered the shutdown of the internet for the second night in a row as it intensified a crackdown on protests two weeks after it staged a coup.

The military has escalated military efforts to quell an uprising against their seizure of power, which saw civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained along with hundreds of others, including members of her democratically elected government.

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