Protests against fuel hike continue in Myanmar even as the military junta takes to repressive measures detaining protesters.
Protesting means an act of defiance in Myanmar, but the people of the country are so fed up with the military regime’s policies that shedding their fears they have taken to the roads against it. People of all kinds of life seem to be protesting, jamming roads, against sudden 100 per cent hike in fuel prices that in turn has stimulated surge in the cost of all essential commodities.
No matter how atrocious the military junta is proving to its people, detaining students and protesters, but no stopping the countrymen from protests. Even the military dictatorial regime has sent gangs of men armed with catapults and grinded bamboo staves on roads to rein in the dissenters. More so it has launched a campaign of mid night arrests picking protesters from their homes to spell fear in their minds.
The military junta in Myanmar seems to have put all its apples in one basket when it comes to democratic principles. Incriminating the protesters of committing a massive blunder of destabilizing the country, it is preparing for repressive measures against them especially charging them with rigorous imprisonment that can be of 20 years.
What a shame on the part of the Myanmar dictatorial regime, which is hell-bent on committing atrocities on democrats. In a country, where opposition has no role to play, the future seems bleak, as those who raise their voice against the dictatorial policies of the regime are put behind bars indicted with rigorous crimes. The detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Ky is a grave example of Myanmar’s deviation from democracy.
Via: Telegraph
