By Seth Galinsky April 12, 2021
Streets were deserted and shopping districts shuttered in large cities, small towns and villages all across Myanmar March 24 during a one day “silent strike,” demonstrating the overwhelming opposition to the brutal military junta that seized power Feb. 1.
When street actions by working people and youth resumed the next day, the junta responded with stepped-up violence.
Gen. Min Aung Hlaing told troops and a handful of international guests assembled for the March 27 Armed Forces Day celebration in the capital city of Naypyitaw that the generals are acting to protect the “ethnic people” and “democracy.” But the reality is they’ve crushed the limited democratic rights allowed before the coup and clashed sharply with many of Myanmar’s dozens of ethnic peoples.
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