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February 11, 2021
The writer is the Burmese coordinator of the UK-based Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia
LONDON
One of the most encouraging features of the anti-coup protests unfolding in small towns, cities and villages across Myanmar is the emergence of Generation Z on the streets. Their movement has grown out of the shadows of an iconic politician and her party, namely Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NDL).
Myanmar’s coup leaders led by genocidal General Min Aung Hlaing have vastly underestimated the strength and ferocity of popular revolt, especially the youth, against the blatant violation of the fundamental principle of representative self-governance of a people. It prevented elected representatives from taking the oath of office and discharged their popularly mandated mission of running the country’s affairs.