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[tg_divider style="dotted"] [one_third_bg bgcolor="#ffdf94" fontcolor="#6e2800" padding=""] This is the first time that I publish photos that I did not take. These were taken in recent days by "young Chinese Burmese" from Chinatown to Yangon. They were made from a drone and were transmitted to me by a friend who lives in Chinatown, a district of Yangon. Since the coup d'état of February 1, young Burmese Generation Z have played a decisive role in the resistance to the military junta. They are the authors of these Yangon tar paintings that echo like a cry in the night to free their imprisoned leaders. It is with great sadness and fear that I discover on a daily basis the murderous development of the repression of the military junta. And tonight by receiving through Signal the link FB of the last images and videos of the victims with the exploded skulls of the snipers of Min Aung Hlaing, there is no longer any doubt, Burma has turned into war and horror. Some published images are unbearable. I had high hopes for democracy since February 2017 (see the article "a breeze blows") which were shaken in a few weeks. Photospicy.com [/one_third_bg] [one_third_bg bgcolor="#ffdf94" fontcolor="#6e2800" padding=""]"We will go all the way, whatever the risks! Promises Kyaw, a 19-year-old student who lives in Mandalay, Burma's second city. "We have no choice, it is our responsibility to continue the fight against the army that has robbed us of our democracy! », Continues a 29-year-old tourist guide, also in Mandalay. They are between 17 and 30 years old and are part of "Generation Z", a globalized term to define the last age group to have reached the stage of political maturity. Here, they are born rebels. Too young to have known the previous military regimes and the bloody repressions of 1988 and 2007, they grew up in the intoxicating atmosphere of the democratic process that began just ten years ago, after the ruling junta carried out, in 2011, to its "self-dissolution" - thus ending forty-nine years of dictatorship. [/one_third_bg][one_third_last] The coup d'etat of February 1 and the image of the great step backwards that this military takeover symbolizes, the young people of "Gen Z", as they say in Burma, are not ready to digest it. They are the ones who are on the front line of the ongoing peaceful insurgency against the dreaded and feared "tatmadaw" ("armed forces"): "I am at the head of a small group of about thirty people" , explains, over the phone and in perfect English, Kyaw; “If tomorrow the army cuts the Internet and prevents us from organizing on a larger scale, I have already planned meeting places to continue the struggle.Son of a soldier, he recounts being angry with his father, adding: “We do not agree on our respective political views. " Le Monde newspaper, online publication February 15, 2021 - Translate from French[/one_third_last] [tg_divider style="dotted"]
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