Over the past decade, Myanmar’s military had begun to share power with civilians and to open up the economy. That fitful democratization ended on Feb. 1 when the military seized power and detained Aung San Suu Kyi, whose political party had won a landslide election in November. Almost immediately, protests against the coup began to spread across the Southeast Asian country of 57 million. Security forces have responded with increasing brutality, and scores have died. As many as 2,000 people have been arrested. On March 10, the U.N. Security Council condemned the violence and called on Myanmar’s military to “exercise utmost restraints” in handling protests. The military has said it would restore democracy but set no date for new elections. Among the demonstrators are young people who came of age in a Myanmar that was increasingly connected, digitally and physically, to the rest of Asia. Those connections are reflected in the adoption by protesters of the three-finger salute first used in neighboring Thailand to resist a military coup in 2014. The salute, seen in today's photo gallery, is borrowed from “The Hunger Games,” a U.S. movie. – Simon Montlake / Staff writer