On the street, silent stops in the Sagaing region.

Hands raised with three fingers, salute of the resistance.

In Yangon, students rolled out banners against the dictatorship.

These are the images, in Burma, of the protest on the day of the first anniversary of the coup.

It was February 1, 2021.

Silent strikes are underway throughout the country but other protests are expected during the day and there are many appeals on social networks to close all activities.

"We will continue to challenge the regime by any means possible. The military is not our legitimate government," wrote one opponent on Twitter. 

Since the coup against Aung San SuuKyi, there have been many silent strikes.

In December the streets of the town were emptied.

The military junta has warned that these demonstrations can be qualified as high treason, a crime punishable by death.

A warning that reports the numbers of this year that plunges day after day into blind violence.

According to a local observatory, more than 1,500 civilians have been killed by the security forces and nearly 9,000 are held in prisons.

Many reports of cases of rape, torture and extrajudicial executions.

 The international community has increased pressure on the generals while the UN is investigating crimes against humanity.

"International justice - reads a press release by Nicholas Koumjian, head of the United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Burma - has a very long memory and one day the perpetrators of the most serious international crimes committed in Burma will have to be held responsible" .

The United States, along with the United Kingdom and Canada, have imposed new financial sanctions.

Seven people and two entities "linked to the military regime in Burma" are targeted