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In Burma, the opposition is structured to put the junta in check

2021-04-04T15:55:51.487Z


STORY - As the army struggles to impose a state of emergency, the heirs of Aung San Suu Kyi create a “government of national unity”.


The scent of terror and blood on the dusty Yangon macadamia.

The soldiers' automatic rifle fire goes blind, mowing down the inhabitants

"like chickens",

testify the resistance to the coup d'état of General Min Aung Hlaing.

Like this employee of the South Korean bank Shinhan, hit in the head on Wednesday through the windows of the company's minivan in the township of Tamwe, in the heart of the first agglomeration of Burma.

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Two months after the putsch,

“the situation is terrible.

They shoot at anything that moves, to kill, even passers-by, ”

confides Pho Tyo (first name changed), a 27-year-old entrepreneur in Rangoon, contacted on Signal messaging.

Like many demonstrators, the young man no longer dares to go out under the threat of the gusts, but his anger grows.

“We are not going to give up.

The only political outcome is that Tatmadaw

(the name given to the army, editor's note)

renounces power, by submitting to a new Constitution, ”he

asserts brazenly.

Since some

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Source: lefigaro

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