Across Australia and Asia, young people have been chanting on the streets and scrawling a simple message on the palms of their hands, protesting against the recent death sentences imposed on 10 Myanmar people, including seven university students.
Across Australia and Asia, young people have been chanting on the streets and scrawling a simple message on the palms of their hands, protesting against the recent death sentences imposed on 10 Myanmar people, including seven university students.
Residents in Myanmar held a "silent strike" in opposition to the military junta's rule of the country's government after the ousting of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February. The strike was considered to be a safe way of showing opposition to the military's dictatorship to avoid violent encounters in street protests.
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Hundreds of young people turned out in cities across Myanmar on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a 1962 student uprising against a military coup, calling on citizens to continue the decades-long struggle against the army, which again overthrew civilian rule in February.
The July 7, 1962 protest in Myanmar’s then-capital Yangon led to the massacre by the army of more than 100 students, providing a model of sacrifice and resistance to this year’s Feb. 1 coup that ousted the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, marchers said on Wednesday.
Military forces overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government based on accusations that November 2020 landslide elections won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) were marred by voter fraud.