This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch on May 10, 2021 shows protesters holding signs during a demonstration against the military coup in Dawei. - AFP YAGON, May 10 (dpa): Efforts to reopen schools after a year of pandemic and months of unrest in reaction to a military coup could become the latest battleground in Myanmar. We tried to reopen the schools, but there are some people who want to destroy this, by doing wrong things to force the students not to go to schools. It is too bad. Major Kaung Htet San, of the junta s information team, told the media during a recent press conference in the capital .
THOUSANDS of academic and other university staff opposed to Myanmar’s ruling junta have been suspended after striking against the military regime, a teacher’s group said today.
The suspension of over 11,000 staff, announced by the Myanmar Teachers’ Federation, came as universities reopened after a year of pandemic lockdowns.
University students and teachers have been at the forefront of protests against the February 1 coup, when the army detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and halted a decade of democratic reforms.
Thirty-seven-year-old university rector Thandar, who only gave her first name for fear of reprisals, told Reuters: “I feel upset to give up a job that I adored so much, but I feel proud to stand against injustice.
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Two Myanmar air force bases in the cities of Meiktila and Magway were hit by rocket attacks Thursday, and several other cities were rocked by explosions, witnesses said, with unconfirmed social media reports saying as many as six government soldiers were killed.
While the 12-week-old military junta that overthrew Myanmar’s elected government threatened to fire striking teachers and arrested more regime opponents, witnesses told of rocket attacks on key military installations in the center of the country, far from regions controlled by ethnic armies.
Six improvised rockets were fired at the air force base in Meiktila, a city in Mandalay region that is home to the Myanmar Air Force Central Command, though only five exploded, and the other one was found later by soldiers, witnesses said.
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The stop-work protest initiated by nurses and doctors two days after the recent coup in Myanmar is now a massive country-wide movement of young people, factory workers, teachers, engineers and civil society staff.
Acts of defiance include a nationwide strike on February 22nd, the noisy banging of pots and pans by neighbours when activists are seized at night, and roadblocks of ‘broken down’ cars aimed at preventing government staff getting to work.
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It is estimated that about 30% of public service workers have stopped working, and with the suggestion by one prominent political activist that public service workers will determine the outcome of the protest movement. Protestors are now targeting government buildings and housing to encourage employees to stop work and join the protests.
Myanmar Military Regime’s Forces Establish Bases at Civilian Schools, Universities, and Hospitals
Myanmar Military Regime’s Forces Establish Bases at Civilian Schools, Universities, and Hospitals
Military troops deployed in Mandalay amid the regime’s crackdown on its protesters on Feb. 22, marking 22222 nationwide general strike. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 8 March 2021
Yangon At least 20 government universities, school and hospitals in major cities including Yangon, Mandalay, Magway, Monywa and Ayeyarwady have been occupied by security forces of the military regime as their base camps.
On Sunday night, security forces that have occupied a teaching hospital in Yangon’s North Oakkalapa Township as their base camp, opened fire and exploded percussion grenades in an attempt to intimidate a crowd that had appeared in front of the hospital opposing its use by the military.