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Myanmar’s Protest Movement Finds Friends in the Milk Tea Alliance

Transnational solidarity – including shared protest tactics and strategies – between Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan now stretches to include Myanmar’s anti-coup movement.

Myanmar’s Protest Movement Finds Friends in the Milk Tea Alliance

Protesters flash the three-fingered salute in Yangon, Myanmar on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.

Credit: AP Photo

When Myanmar’s military seized control of the civilian government and declared a year-long state of emergency, Ei San was shaken.

On February 1, the military arrested elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of other lawmakers, after declaring that a landslide election won by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in November was fraudulent. In the days that followed, hundreds of thousands of people – particularly from the younger generations – have taken to the streets in protest, amidst an escalating crackdown by security forces.

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