Myanmar (Burma) Rapidly Becoming A Failed State?

          (John Reed’s article from the FINANCIAL TIMES on 17 March 2021.)

A Chinese factory burning in Rangoon.

Protesters playing ‘dangerous game’ with Myanmar’s economy, warn businesses. Concerns rise that turmoil will destroy a decade of economic gains: A civil disobedience movement resisting Myanmar’s military regime has paralysed the economy as workers strike, businesses withhold taxes and the ousted government asks foreign investors to shun the junta. 

The CDM movement has won mass support from tens of thousands of government and private sector employees opposed to General Min Aung Hlaing’s coup on February 1, in which he ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. Railway workers, bank employees, medical workers and civil servants have joined a general strike, disrupting transport, logistics, banking, commerce and Myanmar’s Covid-19 vaccination drive. 

However, the growing chaos has alarmed businesspeople, most of whom support their employees’ right to protest. Privately, though, they warned that the turmoil threatened to wipe out a decade of economic gains. “The CDM is succeeding in bringing things to a halt,” one chief executive told the Financial Times. “I guess that is its purpose, but it is a bit of a dangerous game.” 

Yesterday At Hlaing Tharyar Hospital By Dr. Soe Min

               (Dr. Soe Min’s post from his FACEBOOK PAGE on 15 March 2021)

Yesterday, despite all the road blocks all over the city, I managed to reach the burning city Hlaing Tharyar.

I tried to call, failed miserably of course, the phone-numbers of medical facilities in the area. So I went direct to the Hlaing Tharyar Hospital and asked if I could help, of course after introducing myself as a surgeon, and they sent me direct to the emergency surgery.  

There was one wounded patient inside and another one waiting just outside the surgery to enter, and I didn’t even know how many wounded were waiting downstairs.  Right away I started operating on the one already inside. Then another one. One after another.

At just after 7 pm I finished fixing a wounded patient with large open wound on belly and mutilated insides. I could still hear the gunshots from right outside the hospital. 

When I went back down to Emergency, the world is ending there. Since the army had just withdrawn temporarily for the night the Ambulances (hiding with their wounded patients) were coming into the hospital one after another. Volunteer paramedics were rapidly carrying patients one after another into emergency room. Some were alive and still breathing but dying, and some were already dead on arrival.

Hlaing Tharyar Burning: 100+ Killed & 1,000+ Injured

                                (Staff article from the AL JAZEERA on 14 March 2021.)

Myanmar security forces kill dozens of anti-coup protesters. Casualties ‘drastically increasing’, advocacy group says, as Chinese factories are set ablaze in Yangon.

At least 38 protesters across Myanmar have been killed in the latest crackdown on the anti-coup movement, an advocacy group said, as the generals who seized power on February 1 declared martial law over two areas of Yangon where Chinese factories were set ablaze. A police officer also died making Sunday the deadliest day since mass demonstrations against the coup began six weeks ago.

A total of 126 people have so far been killed in “violent and arbitrary crackdowns” since the coup, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said, warning that casualties were “drastically increasing”. The number of people arrested rose to more than 2,150 people by Saturday, it added.

Diary Of A Front-line Protester In Burma

  (Postings from the Htein Lin Aung’s Facebook Page in February & March 2021)

8 March 2021: According to the battle experience: Now they (the soldiers and cops) always stand about 100 meters away from our front line shield team before attacks. First, shooting Tear Gas Guns followed by stun grenades and then started firing rubber bullets and then finally real bullets to kill some of us.  

Our front line is shield-line and second line is shell-clearing line followed by the line of supporters who also picked up teargas-shells and throw them back to the cops. Girls and women are to stay that third line once the attacks started.

9 March 2021: For Front Line Defender: The safety goggles currently using by the most of us are not fit to the face, even though the style is cool and fashionable as they actually do not protect us from the teargas. Gas is worse when they go through the glasses and trapped near the eyes. Welding goggles are no good at all.

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.