[ad_1]
On the 9th, when the army’s emergency measures were invoked, a large-scale protest against the coup was held in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. Yangon = EPA Yonhap News
Myanmar young man Tan (26, pseudonym) was an ordinary worker who had no interest in politics until last week. Although I regretted the 200,000 kyat (about 150,000 won) that I received at the rubber factory where I have been working for six years, I was not very happy with my life playing soccer with my friends. Then a week later, he became an anti-government fighter at the site of a protest at Yangon’s Sule Pagoda.
On the 9th I asked him on the phone: “Why did you participate in the protest?” The answer was simple. “I didn’t want to live like my father.” Tan’s family, who were so poor that they couldn’t afford a single SIM chip 10 years ago, said that going to a famous bakery once a month was their only pleasure. “The greed of the army ruined everything.” He remembers his father’s words as a habit from childhood.
Tan and 13 co-workers have been shouting “Topple the military” with a red towel tied to their head since the 7th. The night before, when the military imposed a nighttime traffic ban and followed martial law, more than half of the colleagues left the place in fear. They shouted countless times, saying, “If martial law is declared, we will fire it,” and to their acquaintances who urged the factory to return to the factory, “Then we must work harder to defeat the dictatorship.”
The Yangon City Hall neighborhood in Myanmar on the 8th is full of citizens who want to participate in the protests against the coup. Provided by locals
Shun (23, pseudonym), who works in a large shopping mall in downtown Yangon, appeared to have had the heat of the demonstration the day before. He arrived at Sule Pagoda on foot around lunchtime, took a box with his friends, formed a picket line, and shouted happily. However, the excitement turned to fear in noon. In the evening, when news of the curfew broke, a deep sigh broke out from the willingly disbanded crowd. Unlike Tan, Shun seemed resigned and said, “The light is short and the darkness came quickly.” He did not even participate in the protests that day. The protest in Yangon, where 100,000 people had gathered the day before, is reported to have dropped to less than half in one day.
Supreme Commander Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup in Myanmar, is issuing a statement to the public on the night of the 8th through state broadcasts. Naepido = AFP Yonhap News
The military is now blatantly revealing the “color black.” At the peak of the coup, Min Aung Hlaing, the supreme commander of the armed forces, appeared on the state broadcast the previous day and issued several appeals, saying, “We are different from the military administration in the past.” He plans to organize a peace council to support minorities and establish a national steering committee to hold fair general elections. On the outside, it may seem plausible, but if you look towards the inside wall, it will most likely turn into an empty flame. Since the military leadership has already taken over all three powers, it is the same that the military will do whatever it takes.
If the protests continue, the declaration of martial law is a matter of time. Even the police were armed that day. The water cannon that appeared in Yangon this day after the capital Naepido the day before was only a moderate suppression tool (?). The AFP news agency said: “The police fired rubber bullets at the protesters and fired firearms into the air to disperse the Naepido protests.” In 1988 he revived the nightmare of the ‘Myanmar Spring’, which stained civil society with blood.
Police are known to have arrested at least 27 protesters that day. Tan will return to the streets for fear of arrest. Shun left one last request in a low voice. “I heard that Korea has the same days as Myanmar. Please spread our cry and help us withdraw from the army. “
Police are preparing vehicles and troops with water cannons on the 9th to stop the ongoing protests against the coup in Yangon, Myanmar. Yangon = AFP Yonhap News
Hanoi = Jaeho jeong Correspondent [email protected]
News edited directly by Hankook Ilbo can also be viewed on Naver.
Issues that may interest you
[ad_2]
