YANGON: Schools in Myanmar will open on Tuesday for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance.
"I'm not afraid of their arrest and torture," Shwe Nadi, a teacher from the commercial capital Yangon told AFP. Her name has been changed for her safety.Advertisement "Of course, I feel bad losing my job because I loved being a teacher. Although it is not well paid, we have our pride for being teachers as others respect us," she said.The primary school teacher lost months of her salary after joining the nationwide boycott, but said"my soul is pure" because she participated in the strike."When I see how they have killed a lot of people, I feel I don't want to be their teacher any more," she added.
The Myanmar junta has insisted that schools reopen after a yearlong absence forced by the coronavirus, but many educators and students plan to defy the order. University students were key drivers of political activism under nearly five decades of earlier military rulers, who violently suppressed any signs of public dissent.
Her class of 100 is now empty, despite students being summoned by the few remaining professors on campus.
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