Quah Say Jye, a graduate student and student research assistant at RSIS, discussed the Feb 1 military coup in Myanmar in a commentary. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets since to express anger at the military takeover and the arrest of leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League of Democracy (NLD) party won a landslide victory in national elections in November. By ignoring the recently imposed martial law to continue their protests, they have strongly signalled that they oppose military dictatorship and will not let their democracy erode quiet, he said.