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This is what “Freedom on the Ropes” looks like in Burma
Across Burma today Generation Z youth, villagers, farmers, and government office workers face down Burmese generals who initiated a coup on 1 February. The attached video (also pasted below as a link) provides a sensing of youth protestors on the streets of Burma’s cities.
In the northwest, Christian Chin bearing muzzleloaders and duck guns were cut down two weeks ago by Burmese infantry. Backlash played out last week when Chin farmers and youth ambushed Burmese infantry using the same guns. When talking yesterday with a Chin National Front leader, he commented that farmers are busy grinding gun powder and trying to organize resistance. This is being done without US aid. Chin church communities in America fill the gap by a thin margin.