Burmese protesters held a rally this morning displaying pictures of jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the two-year anniversary of the bloody military coup in Myanmar.

Hundreds of demonstrators wearing red - the coulor of the resistance movement - gathered outside their country's embassy building in neighbouring Bangkok, Thailand, where police contained them with metal barriers.

It comes two years after army chiefs lead a violent coup that saw democratically-elected Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi removed from office and jailed on charges widely seen as being politically motivated.

Several months of protests erupted across Myanmar, also known as Burma, but hundreds of civilians were killed amid forceful crackdowns. The army has since regained control through ongoing intimidation and arrests but the country remains divided and rebel groups clash regularly with state soldiers.

Burma, best known from Rudyard Kipling's timeless poem Mandalay, was a highly-regarded British trading outpost positioned next to India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the empire.