South-East Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane reflects on being in Myanmar for the historic moment Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party trounced the country's military-backed ruling party in landmark elections.
The final results were announced this week in Myanmar's historic national election, but the winner has been clear for some time.
The crowd was heaving — an exuberant sea of opposition supporters in red shirts and bandanas, dancing and singing in front of party headquarters in Yangon.
But we had a problem. We had lost our ladder. Somehow in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, cameraman David and I had become separated from our local fixer, Shein.
He was carrying the aluminium step-ladder that we needed to get just slightly above the crowd to do a piece to camera for TV.
After several phone calls that mostly involved Shein and I shouting "what?" and "can you hear me?" down the line to each other, we gave up, and David and I managed to get into the tray of a small truck parked amid the crowd. (Courtesy of ABC News)
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