Karl Aung Zin, a Burmese student, has participated in several anti-coup protests in Myanmar. (Photo Courtesy of Karl Aung Zin)
Su Lei Waddy, a student in Myanmar taking a full-time course load, used to attend her classes synchronously from Myanmar. Every day, she would log into Zoom at around 1:30 to 8:30 a.m. Rangoon time.
“I would participate in all class discussions live, and I was getting good at [being nocturnal],” said Waddy, a junior majoring in accounting and business administration.
Then the coup escalated.
On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s government was overtaken by the Burmese military, or the Tatmadaw, which claimed a fraudulent election against the National League for Democracy in Nov. 2020. The day before the newly elected officials were sworn in, Burmese armed forces detained President of Myanmar Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as ministers, deputies and members of Parliament. Since then, thousands of people have taken to the streets in massive
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