Welcome to The Inquiry, I'm Tanya Beckett, each week one question for expert witnesses and an answer.

It's early one sunny Monday morning and a young female fitness instructor in a luminous yellow top

and blue face mask is filming herself performing a dance routine outside the Parliament building

in Myanmar's capital, Napidor. As she snakes her hips and energetically punches the air,

she's so engrossed in making her video that she fails to notice the scene that is unfolding behind

her. A convoy of black SUVs and armored vehicles with flashing lights, some with machine guns mounted

on them sweep past behind her towards the Parliament buildings. The dancer continues with her routine,

side-stepping back and forth completely oblivious to what later turns out to be a military coup

which is taking shape in her country. The military arrest Myanmar's elected leader,

An Sang Su Chi, sparking weeks of mass protests. Neither side looks like it's going to back down.

So this week on The Inquiry, we're asking, what is the future for Myanmar?

Part one, the streets of Yangon.

People are still very active and trying to use all the innovative ideas, creative ideas,

and protesting on the street. It's all over the country.

Our first expert witness is May Zabepu, one of thousands of people who've been protesting in

Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, since An Sang Su Chi was arrested on February 1. Only a few weeks

ago, May was campaigning for gender equality in Myanmar. But since An Sang Su Chi was removed from

power and arrested, she's become part of a broader group of demonstrators who are coming together

on the streets and junctions. At the beginning, people just get together by the junctions and the

public areas sit in and protest, read out loud the messages they would like to convey to the

military. But day by day, their strategies change a little bit. Since the junctions and public

areas are not very safe, especially in bigger towns like Mandalay, Neh Pida, you know.

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