She didn’t win the Miss Universe 2020 crown but for the hearts of many, including Filipino pageant fans, Miss Myanmar Thuzar Wint Lwin who also goes by the name Candy Thuzar will always be the lovely and feisty bet who urged the world to speak out against the military junta. In a recent meet-and-greet event in the US, she was feted by the Chin community in Indianapolis for her courage and representing their country in the 69th Miss Universe.
Miss Myanmar speaks out against military junta 3 minutes read
By Ramón Abarca
Bangkok, May 28 (EFE).- Aged just 22, Miss Grand Myanmar Han Lay joined the front lines of the anti-coup protests in her country, and has decided to use her international presence to send a strong message against the military junta, like other Burmese beauty queens.
In an interview to EFE from Bangkok – where she has been living since March – the model and psychology student said that the situation in her country was getting progressively worse and the military was “killing people with heavy weapons,” while many citizens had been forced to flee and go into hiding.
Uprising: Htar now wears combat fatigues and carries a rifle. AFP/The Straits Times
A FORMER Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country’s military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle.
Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military seized power on Feb 1, ousting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Htar Htet Htet represented Myanmar in the first Miss Grand International beauty pageant in Thailand in 2013, competing against 60 contenders in swimsuit and national costume rounds.
Fast forward eight years and glitz and glamour is a far cry from the jungle of Myanmar’s border regions controlled by ethnic armed groups.