Showing posts with label Myanmar- Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar- Thailand. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Myanmar-Thailand: Organising resistance on the other side of the border

Aline BOTTIN
Will HILDERBRANDT
Sonia BARITELLO
Claire HOPES
16/03/2021 

For weeks now, hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar have marched against the military junta to protest last month’s coup. The people’s demand for democracy has put them in the army's crosshairs. Dozens have been killed, thousands more detained. But they have help. A network of exiled Burmese citizens living in Thailand is organising and financing their resistance movement.