Bangkok | With the night in Myanmar came the terror. In cities across the country on Sunday evening, armoured vehicles moved in, along with trucks filled with soldiers in camouflage.
Security forces fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at a crowd. Troops surrounded the houses of government workers who had dared to join a nationwide civil disobedience campaign. Politicians, activists and journalists fled, turning off their phones as they disappeared into the shadows, hoping to outpace the men coming after them.