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Myanmar’s Ethnic Groups Jointly Reject Military Rule Protests Offer Different Ethnic Narrative and Vision of Future Democracy Tom Fawthrop From the streets of Yangon to the mountain strongholds of ethnic peoples, the diverse peoples of Myanmar are forging a rare unity in their nationwide mass protests against the February 1 military coup. Junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing had not expected
his surgical coup, which toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government and shut down parliament, would unleash one of the biggest civil disobedience movements of all time, and the largest general strike in the country’s history The Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) has inspired civil servants, doctors, nurses, railway workers, copper miners, and engineers to refuse to work for the “illegal
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