As with Zaw Maung Myint, so with Myanmar: the country is descending further into violence. After arresting Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the ruling National League for Democracy, the army began an orgy of bloodletting. Security forces have already killed over 1,000 civilians in their attempt to snuff out defiance of the junta. Ms Suu Kyi has disappeared from view, apart from the odd photograph from court as she answers a raft of absurd charges, such as possession of walkie-talkies.
Gone, too, is her doctrine of non-violent opposition that was at the heart of the pro-democracy movement she spearheaded during years of house arrest, and which helped bring an elected government to office in 2015 after decades of military rule. On September 7th the National Unity Government or, which, though underground, claims to be the legitimate government of the land, declared a “people’s defensive war”.
Zaw Maung Myint is a member of one of several hundred “people’s defence forces” that have sprouted in recent months. There is a David-and-Goliath flavour to the contest, notes Gwen Robinson, a longtime chronicler of Myanmar, involunteers rely on a covert lottery organised by theThe Tatmadaw acknowledges over 800 deaths froms have blown up so many telecoms towers belonging to the army-owned Mytel that the Tatmadaw has taken to laying mines around them.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Bamboo-shoots of resistance"
You can't have peace when armed police and military are using violence against their own countrymen. Police and army are there to defend the country and it's citizens, not corrupt politicians and power hungry generals
What they do to innocent animals...is so evil.
when the rohingya were being massacred, this so called 'resistance' didn't give a shit, in face they were part of the crime. Now that the junta is doing the same to them.... they must be left wondering why no one gives shit.
horrible
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