In Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Operation “
silence strike
”, third edition.
As in the past two years, the streets of Burmese cities will remain deserted this Thursday.
Shutters closed and storefronts lowered: the pro-democracy movement chooses emptiness to signify its opposition to the military's hold on power, on this symbolic date marking the third anniversary of the coup d'état of February 1, 2021.
If the mode of expression remains the same from one year to the next, the context has radically changed over the last twelve months.
Three years after deposing the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the junta is showing unprecedented signs of weakness, undermined in the border areas by armed resistance, which stands up to General Min Aung Hlaing.
“The military's hold on power is more uncertain than it has ever been in the last sixty years
,” judges Richard Horsey, Crisis Group advisor for Burma.
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