When the Myanmar military overthrew a parliamentary government in Feb. 2021, people filled the streets in protest. Met with violence, they have continued a nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement and many have taken up arms in a “Generation Z” war of resistance. The coup regime strikes back with attacks, arson and executions. Two speakers with first hand knowledge of this human rights crisis will show how the anti-coup groundswell is succeeding against the odds and what challenges it faces.
Portland author and activist Edith Mirante will provide an overview of Myanmar (Burma) since the 2021 coup and report on her recent trip to the India/Myanmar border, where she interviewed refugees and visited resistance camps in Chin State’s Thantlang war zone.
Ei Thin Zar, founder and director of People's Radio Myanmar and a Ph.D. candidate in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will share the work of young people from different ethnic and social groups who are creating a community of resistance and education in the phase of very adverse circumstances in Burma.
This discussion is free and open to the public and is presented in partnership by Amnesty International Group 48, Never Again Coalition, PSU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project and WorldOregon.
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