NLD Education Official Arrested & Tortured To Death

              (Staff article from the AL JAZEERA on 10 March 2021.)

An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested on Tuesday, a former parliamentarian said, the second party figure to die in detention in almost as many days.

The NLD’s Zaw Myat Linn (The Principal of “SUU  Vocational Institute” and NLD’s Vocational Education Official) died in custody after he was detained in Yangon at about 1:30am (19:00 GMT on Monday), said Ba Myo Thein, a member of the dissolved upper house of parliament.

“He’s been participating continuously in the protests,” Ba Myo Thein said. “Now the relatives are trying to retrieve the body at the Military Hospital.” Neither the military nor the police responded to calls for comment.

Zaw Myat Linn, who ran a vocational institute in Myanmar’s biggest city, is the second NLD official to have died in custody in recent days. Khin Maung Latt, who worked as a campaign manager for an NLD MP elected in 2020, died after he was arrested on Saturday.

Army Stormed Railway Compound & Kicked Out Families

                (Staff article from the FRONTIER MYANMAR on 10 March 2021)

Police, soldiers forcibly evict more than 1,000 rail workers and their families: The eviction ended an early-morning raid in Yangon on staff housing where most workers had joined the Civil Disobedience Movement, and who now say they have nowhere to go.

Police and soldiers evicted more than 1,000 Myanma Railways staff from their state-owned homes today for participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement, which has seen workers across government refuse to attend work in order to topple the military.

Hundreds of police and soldiers raided the staff housing compound in Yangon’s Tarmwe Township at about 6am and for much of the morning blocked all exits and entrances to and from the compound, raising fears among residents of imminent violence.

As Killings Escalate, What Is The End Game In Myanmar?

          (Simpson & Farrelly’s article from the CONVERSATION on 11 Mar 2021)

As killings, beatings and disappearances escalate, what’s the end game in Myanmar? Myanmar’s military appears to be testing out a range of vicious tactics in the hope something will stem the protest movements that have embroiled the country since the coup in early February.

The military crossed a grim threshold last Wednesday when security forces fired live rounds at protesters across the country, resulting in what the UN said were at least 30 deaths and hundreds of critical injuries.

Then, on Saturday, security forces beat and took away Khin Maung Latt, a Muslim ward chairman for the former ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). The next morning, the family recovered his tortured and mutilated body from the hospital.

Massacre In North-Oakkalapa, Rangoon, Burma.

        (Current news with photos and videos from various Burmese Facebook pages.)

On March-3 Hundreds and hundreds of Min Aung Hlaing’s wardogs surrounded and tried to break the massive anti-coup protests participated by at least 100,000 local residents. The brutal outcome was a massacre which killed thirty and wounded hundreds in that day alone. The killings of unarmed civilians are still going on in that township on Rangoon’s northeastern outskirts.

Words could be hard pressed to describe the bloody scenes there, and so I collected the photos and videos from Burmese Facebook pages and reposted here on my blog. Min Aung Hlaing the war criminal and a genocidal maniac is completely going mad and personally ordering the brutal killings of the protesting kids his children’s and grand-children’s ages.

Courageous and resilient residents of North Oakkalapa township, Yangon. Dozens of unarmed protesters were shot and killed and many more injured in the North Okkalapa massacre on 3rd March by the Myanmar military. Cops and soldiers even attacked people ambulances attending the wounded on the streets.

Killing Field Burma: Army Snipers Killing Hundreds!

               (Current news with photos from various Burmese Facebook pages.)

Brutal history of our Burma is repeating again unfortunately and Burmese soldiers are now killing their own people on the streets by hundreds and hundreds daily. Unarmed people protesting peacefully in every city and town in Burma are picked one after another by Burmese Army snipers armed with latest sniper rifles supplied by China.

Facebook pages from Burma are now filled daily with the horrible photos of headshot victims and also their cold-blooded killers caught in sniping actions. The heroic citizen journalists are identifying not only the victims but also the killer-soldiers by their identity and address details accurately as if they have been recording the photographic evidence of cold-blooded murders on the streets.

I believe that the poor victims will eventually get their justice when that mad-war-dog Min Aung Hlaing and his soldiers now illegally ruling Burma will be toppled and charged with Crimes Against Humanity and severely punished in very near future.

Burmese Generals Blindsided By Gen-Z Protesters

                 (Bertil Lintner’s article from the ASIA TIMES on 12 February 2021.)

The Police Colonel who shot and killed a girl protester.

CHIANG MAI – It is becoming abundantly clear that Myanmar’s military leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing didn’t anticipate the youthful fury his democracy-suspending coup would spark. But the Generation Z-led street demonstrations now spreading across the nation have exposed just how out of modern touch the again-ruling generals are.

Min Aung Hlaing looked tense and anything but confident when he made his first TV address to the public on February 8 at the same time as huge demonstrations swept the country. These are vastly different from those in 1988, when soldiers managed to suppress a pro-democracy uprising by spraying automatic rifle fire into crowds of unarmed demonstrators. They are also different from 2007 Buddhist monk-led Saffron Revolution, where soldiers again used bloody suppression to put down a similar popular movement.

Generation Z members are often described as “digital natives” known for their social media and internet-savvy. They can not only get around government blocks on news, but can also organize mass movements with the help of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and Thailand, with whom they communicate daily.

Massive Protests Against Coup in Burma (Myanmar)

                  (Staff article from the ABC NEWS Australia on 08 February 2021.)

Protests sweep Myanmar to oppose coup, support Aung San Suu Kyi: Tens of thousands of people have rallied across Myanmar to denounce last week's coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the biggest protests since the 2007 Saffron Revolution that helped lead to democratic reforms.

In a second day of widespread protests, crowds in the biggest city, Yangon, sported red shirts, red flags and red balloons, the colour of Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party (NLD). "We don't want military dictatorship! We want democracy!" they chanted.

On Sunday afternoon, the junta ended a day-long blockade of the internet that had further inflamed anger since the coup last Monday that has halted the South East Asian nation's troubled transition to democracy and drawn international outrage. Thousands of riders also took to the streets of south-eastern city of Dawei on their motorcycles to denounce to coup.

Pope Francis expressed "solidarity with the people" on Sunday and asked Myanmar's leaders to seek "democratic" harmony. Massive crowds from all corners of Yangon gathered in townships, filling streets as they headed towards the Sule Pagoda at the heart of the city, also a rallying point during the Buddhist monk-led 2007 protests and others in 1988.

Why Myanmar Military Seized Power In A Coup?

           (Zaheena Rasheed’s article from the ALJAZEERA NEWS on 01 February 2021.)

Wearing masks, gloves and face shields, voters across Myanmar on November 8 braved surging coronavirus infections as they turned out en masse to cast their ballots in the country’s second democratic vote since the end of military rule in 2011.

At polling stations in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, the enthusiasm was palpable. “People are excited to vote, as they would like to escape from the political struggles,” one poll worker said at the time. “They want real democracy.” Trouble, however, was already brewing.

Just days before the polls, Myanmar’s powerful military chief Min Aung Hlaing had raised the possibility the army may not accept the outcome of the election. Accusing Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s government of “unacceptable mistakes”, he told a local news outlet that “we are in a situation where we need to be cautious” about the results of the poll.

Coup In Burma: Army Removes 24 Ministers & Deputies

         (REUTER NEWS article from the CHANNEL NEWS ASIA on 01 February 2021.)

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

YANGON: Myanmar's military on Monday (Feb 1) announced a purge of Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government, removing 24 ministers and deputies while naming 11 replacements in its new administration after seizing power in a coup.

The announcement was made on the military-run Myawadday TV and included new appointments in the portfolios for finance, health, information, foreign affairs, defence, borders and interior.

The military seized power on Monday in a coup, detaining Aung San Suu Kyi along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response to "election fraud", handing power to military chief General Min Aung Hlaing and imposing a state of emergency for one year, according to a statement on the military-owned TV station.