Employees of seventy hospitals in thirty places in Myanmar are putting down their work in protest against the coup d’état that the army staged in the night from Sunday to Monday (Dutch time). Government leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the army.
The strike has been announced by the Civil Disobedience Movement. He states in a statement that the army has put its own interests above those of the vulnerable people.
“We refuse to obey any order from the illegitimate military regime that has shown no regard for our poor patients,” the protest group said in a statement.
The people of Myanmar are having a hard time because of the corona pandemic. The virus has so far claimed 3,100 lives in Myanmar according to official figures, one of the largest deaths in Southeast Asia.
“Because we want the soldiers to go back to their barracks, we are no longer going to the hospitals,” a 29-year-old doctor from the former capital Yangon told the news agency. Reuters. “I don’t know how long I’ll be on strike. It depends on the situation.”
Noisy protests in Yangon
Student and youth movements have also joined the disobedience campaign. On Tuesday there was a lot of noise in Yangon.
The army seized power on Monday (local time), thus temporarily ending Myanmar’s transition to democracy. The country was in the grip of the military junta for years. The military claimed fraud had been committed in the November elections, which had been won by far by the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi’s party.
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