From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is the Daily.

In Myanmar, a decade-long experiment in democracy appears to be over.

After a landslide election victory four months ago, the country's civilian leader was removed from power this week by the country's military.

Today, my colleague Hannah Beach on the rise and fall of Anson Su Chi.

It's Thursday, February 4.

Hannah, I wonder if you can describe this coup. Set the scene for us.

So, a lot of us went to sleep on Sunday night thinking that there were all these coup rumors in the air and had been going on this kind of coup fervor for days in Myanmar.

We went to bed thinking this is something that could happen, but we don't really think it's going to happen.

So, we all want to sleep and then suddenly our phone started ringing and the news is back.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Anson Su Chi, who spent more than a decade in detention, has been detained once again by the military.

Don Sun Su Chi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who led the civilian government, had been detained.

And then we entered this kind of awful mix of rumor and fact and fiction.

There were no shots fired as they rounded up and arrested an unknown number of its elected leaders and members of Myanmar's pro-democracy party.

Maybe this person's gone, maybe that's person's gone. There's very little information that is clear.

And we suddenly have this moment when the military goes back to kind of the oldest trick in the book.

Why is Brett internet outages?

Which is to cut much of the telecommunications in the country.

Suddenly, Facebook Messenger goes down, even some land lines are disconnected.

And I think it was at that point when we realized this is real. This is happening.

Military's back in power and this experiment with democracy, however flawed for Myanmar was over.

So Hannah, what were you thinking when you realized that there had in fact been a coup?

I think for many people in Myanmar and the world, the story of the country is about one woman, right? Down Sun Su Chi.

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