Silent Revolution : Myanmar Workers Strike To Force Junta s Hand By Sophie DEVILLER
04/04/21 AT 1:39 AM
Tens of thousands of Myanmar workers have gone on strike over the past two months, hoping that economic paralysis will force the hand of the wealthy generals who ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1.
Bank employees, doctors, engineers, customs officers, dockers, railway staff and textile workers have all downed tools as part of a civil disobedience movement.
Some striking workers are among the 550 people killed in the military s crackdown on anti-coup protests, while many others have been arrested or gone missing.
But they say the junta has forced them to take radical action, even if they cannot march in the streets alongside many of their compatriots.