Tens of thousands of people rallied across Myanmar to denounce the military coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The nation-wide demonstration is believed to be the biggest protest since the 2007 Saffron Revolution that helped lead to democratic reforms. The junta has ended a day-long blockade of the internet that had further inflamed anger since the coup that has halted the Southeast Asian nation's troubled transition to democracy and drawn international outrage