Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. My guest today finds himself once again living under military rule, a decade and a half after he was released from 10 years of incarceration under a previous military regime.

Kinsoor Wyn is a political analyst now, a writer and former dentist in

Yangon, capital of Myanmar. In 94, he was imprisoned by the generals for his allegedly seditious

writings. Right now, he's watching a new generation of men in uniform locking up Myanmar's elected leaders and opening fire

on mass protests across the country. The hopes for democracy and pluralism embodied by the election

of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy back in 2015 now look misplaced. In truth, they looked that way even before the

February 1st coup. A thumping electoral triumph for Aung San Suu Kyi last November couldn't mask

grave international concern about the Myanmar government's human rights record, particularly its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Now the army is on the streets trying to quell a wave of popular protest.

But what do the people actually want and what are they likely to get?

Well, Kinsor Wyn joins me now on the line from Yangon. Welcome to Hard Talk.

Thank you. Let me ask by getting you to describe to me the situation as you see it and feel it today in

Yangon, is the momentum still with the street protests or are people reconsidering whether they should

and will take to the streets? Momentum is very much so with the people, you know. It hasn't abated.

Traffic still goes on. But if you go to the streets, there are intersections where it's like

in the medieval warfare, the protesters on one side and the police and the troops on the other,

carrying shields and wearing helmets. So they are facing off. They have been shooting, not so much

fires or anything, but a lot of

barricades, they put up at night and the police remove it in the morning, you know.

But every day, people are coming out in columns to protest, and there have been live rounds

fired into the crowds, And people have died.

A pregnancy, culture died.

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