From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.

Two months ago, during a pre-dawn raid, the military in Myanmar cut off Internet and phone networks,

and with tanks, helicopters, and soldiers carried out a coup,

putting the country's elected leader, Anson Suu Chi, under house arrest, and ending a five-year-long experiment in Democratic rule.

Today, my colleague, Hannah Beach, has been reporting on what has happened since.

It's Monday, April 5.

Hannah, the last time we spoke with you, the civilian leader of Myanmar had just been deposed by the country's military,

and this democratic experiment underway there had come to a very swift end.

And you described a very uneasy standoff between the people of Myanmar and the military.

So how has that progressed, starting with the civilian population?

What has happened, essentially, is that five years of democratic reform have been utterly replaced by a military regime,

a resumption of the battle days in which the military raped and killed and assaulted.

And people are scared to death that this might happen again.

And so with the February 1st coup, people react by coming out to protest, and they are protesting by the millions.

There are peaceful marches, there are these street parties in which people in ball gowns, the transgender community, doctors, and engineers, and lawyers,

they are all on the street peacefully marching to say that we want our country to resume some form of democracy, and we want the military regime out of the country.

At the same time, this great civil disobedience movement begins, and it starts with some doctors in the largest city in Myanmar.

And all of a sudden, we look on Facebook and we see this photograph of doctors in their blue scrubs, and they're all holding up their hands with the three finger salute from the Hunger Games.

And this is a symbol that's come to me now in Myanmar in particular, but sort of all over the world, this is going to secret-coded defiance against an autocracy or military regime.

Just as in the Hunger Games.

Exactly, so this photograph of the doctors holding up their three fingers in the Hunger Games salute goes viral.

70 hospitals and medical departments across Myanmar stopped work to protest against the coup.

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