Daily Times
May 28, 2021
Japan thrashed Myanmar 10-0 on Friday to cruise into the third round of Asian World Cup qualifying, after protesters had raised anti-junta three-fingered salutes on and off the pitch.
Around 70 protesters gathered before kick-off outside the stadium in Chiba, near Tokyo, carrying pictures of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and waving flags from the country’s 1988 uprising. And TV pictures showed a lone Myanmar player raising the Hunger Games-inspired three-fingered salute, commonly used by protesters. “This team doesn’t represent the Myanmar people,” a protester who gave her name only as A told AFP outside the stadium before the game. “This isn’t a protest against the players. We just want them to stop cooperating with the military junta.”