Myanmar’s fuel hike protests have now turned pro- democracy demonstrations with Buddhist monks joining students in marching against the dictatorial policies of the military junta.
The drama unfolded when the Myanmar military junta hiked prices of fuel stirring a cycle of price rise in other commodities from food to water, from transport to commuting. Angry student protesters took to streets following sudden fuel hike and the military junta hit back with repressive measures detaining most of the demonstrators calling the protests as illegal, a massive blunder of destabilizing the country.
However, no matter how willful the government has proved in stemming the protests, everyday has seen the number of demonstrators gallop. Even the repressive measures of the military regime have proved inconclusive in marginalizing the support for pro- democrats. With Buddhist monks, considered to be standard- bearers in Myanmar’s staunchly Buddhist ideology, joining the mainstream of protests against 100 per cent fuel hike, the scenario seems to be heading for a clampdown on dictatorship.
Shunning the fears of detention, people in Myanmar are set to march against dictatorial policies of the military junta. Going in line for restoration of democracy in the country that has never been fully in the grip of a people’s regime, people of Myanmar, be it school children or college goers or their parents, uncles and aunts, all seek to remove the blur of dictatorship from the face of their motherland. Aung San Suu Ky has already shown the way to the people of her country, now it is left to them to overthrow military dictatorship. Is it that easy?
Via: The New York Times
