Flashbacks: Three Months of Protest Against Myanmar s Military Regime
An anti-regime protester in Batman attire flashes a three-finger salute of defiance in Yangon on Feb. 15. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 30 April 2021
Myanmar’s ongoing “Spring Revolution” against the country’s military regime will be three months old next week.
Since a predawn military coup in the capital Naypyitaw on Feb. 1, the country of 54 million people has been plunged into uncertainty, despair, oppression, bloodshed and chaos.
Soldiers and armored personnel carriers are deployed in Naypyitaw on Feb. 2, one day after the coup. / The Irrawaddy
The uniformed coup makers claimed they staged the takeover in response to mass electoral fraud in last year’s general election, in which the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory. Furious about the military’s worthless claim, millions of people the majority of whom voted for the NLD took to the s
Netizens call out Shopee for usage of Myanmar protest icon for product promotion Details 22 April 2021
Shopee has come under fire after product listings of a black t-shirt with the caption Everything will be OK were found on its platforms across Southeast Asia. The product was promoted with images of a Myanmar protester, Kyal Sin, who reportedly died wearing the shirt earlier in March, according to BBC. According to screenshots posted by netizens on Twitter, the listings were found in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines. The products were shipped from Indonesia and China, per the netizen screenshots seen by
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Apr 14, 2021
GENEVA – Half of Myanmar’s population is under the age of 30, and many of these young people have benefited from their country’s fragile, imperfect democratic transition over the past decade. They know the military’s return to power could reverse hard-won gains in human development and fundamental freedoms. Their future is at stake.
So are their lives. On March 27, General Min Aung Hlaing used the occasion of Armed Forces Day to claim that the military would protect the people and promote democracy. In fact, this turned out to be the bloodiest day since the military coup on Feb. 1.
Myanmar’s next generation demand their future
By Achim Steiner
Half of Myanmar’s population is under the age of 30, and many of them have benefited from their country’s fragile, imperfect democratic transition over the past decade. They know the military’s return to power could reverse hard-won gains in human development and fundamental freedoms. Their future is at stake.
So are their lives. On March 27, Burmese Army Senior General Min Aung Hlaing used the occasion of Armed Forces Day to claim that the military would protect the people and promote democracy. This turned out to be the bloodiest day since the military coup on Feb. 1.