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Young people across Myanmar take up arms as the wave of protests against the February 1st coup morphs into an effort to create an alternative government and army to overthrow the isolated and increasingly detested military or the ‘Tatmadaw’ based in Burma’s modern capital Nay Pyi Taw, far from the country’s thriving commercial sector Yangon. The vote, on Friday at the United Nations in New York, with overwhelming support from western and stable countries worldwide for a resolution tabled by tiny Liechtenstein, is recognition that what is happening now in the troubled country in response to the military overthrow of...