Myanmar Army Finds New Strategy to Stop Mass Protests
The ‘Non-Cooperation Movement’ has started in Myanmar after the military coup. The protests spread from the capital, Naypyidaw, to Yangon. Three people have been killed so far in police firing. The Tatmadao or Burmese army has launched a ‘night campaign’ to stop the voice of democracy in Damadol.
On February 1, the country was occupied by the Myanmar army. Representatives of the democratic government, including Administrator Aung San Suu Kyi, were arrested on charges of vote-rigging. The army claimed that the move was in the interest of the country. In the first week, Tatmadao did not take any action against the protesters. According to sources, the country’s army chief Min Aung Hlaing and his military officials thought the people of Myanmar were accustomed to military rule from the beginning. So the situation will return to normal once the initial tensions and protests subside. But in reality, the facts stand in stark contrast.
This year’s protests are even bigger than the protests against the military junta in 1986 and 2008. Starting from school-college students, a section of bureaucrats and police have started a ‘non-cooperation movement’. This time the Burmese army has started a continuous operation in the dark of night to stop the protest. On the night of February 9, the army raided the offices of the ruling party and Suu Kyi’s party, the NLD, in Yangon. The next day, six senior NLD leaders were arrested in the same manner late at night.
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