Thousands of Burmese brave the military military repression measures.
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on Twitter or Facebook, they are thousands of Burmese to display the red color, that of their “revolution”, or to pin their actions of bravery, among others under the hashtags #redcampaign or #silentstrike, since the first hours From this Tuesday 1 er February for the first anniversary disaster of the coup that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. There are sit-in and gatherings in areas under the protection of armed resistance or ethnic guerrilla. Photos of lightning demonstration of young people deploying banners for a few minutes, often at the risk of their lives, in the streets of big cities, before dispersing immediately. Red flags on cars. And most importantly, completely empty streets in Mandalay, Rangoun, waterless markets in the SagAag region …. Blocked in Burma since the coup, but accessible by private virtual networks, Twitter, Facebook and Internet more generally, are “a battlefield of post-coup state Burma”, write in A report dedicated to the subject of researchers Mi-Kun and Laure Siegel on the website of Researchers ‘Republic.
on the Early Morning of FEB1, Students Unions Of The Whole Burma and Youths from #yangon, Staged A Guerrilla Strik … https://t.co/gwxmfbydjz
This is not the only battlefield: the national unity government (NUG), formed in May 2021, in exile, by the voice of its interim president, Dawa Lashi la, commemorated the first year of the “Spring Revolution” by a long speech and called The citizens of the country, as well as the brigades of “People’s Resistance Forces” and ethnic guerrilla combatants, to continue the combat of the resistance. “If we want to build a new international country, with economic and social development, but also freedom, justice and equality, there is no other solution than to extirpate the military dictatorship”, Has he declared.
The Juntus had warned, as early as January 25, that anyone who would participate in a “silent strike”, the February 1 “, would be continued. To set an example, fifty-eight people would have been arrested last week, reports Associated Press by citing the official press, for advertising on Facebook that they would close their trade or would manifest in the cities of Rangoun, Mandalay and Myawaddy. Am among them restaurant patterns, traders, a doctor, astrologer and a “make-up artist”, the transgender activist known as Gucci Aung scene.
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