Banning the NLD Won’t End Resistance to Military Rule
Banning the NLD Won’t End Resistance to Military Rule
An anti-coup protester holds Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s portrait in Yangon on Feb. 8. / The Irrawaddy
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By Bertil Lintner 16 July 2021
Myanmar’s generals may be delusional if they believe that their moves to ban the National League for Democracy (NLD) will put an end to the pro-democracy, anti-military movement. The NLD is not and never was just a political party among many. “Our party grew out of the people so it will exist as long as people support it,” its leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said when she appeared in court on May 24, and then speaking through one of her lawyers, U Khin Maung Zaw, as she was not allowed to make any public statements on her own.
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Myanmar’s Long History of Revolutionary Poets
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By The Irrawaddy 15 May 2021
Poet Khet Thi was arrested by some 100 junta troops on the evening of May 8. The following day, he was dead. His wife reportedly had to ask the authorities for permission to collect his body, whose internal organs had been removed for autopsy, from Monywa Hospital.
The 45-year-old poet was arrested for alleged possession of explosives, but no evidence was found at his home. He was the third poet to be killed by junta forces in Sagaing Region’s Monywa in just two months. Poets K Za Win, 39, and Kyi Lin Aye, 36, were shot dead in crackdowns in March.
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