120 days into the coup. Everyday is full of uncertainties. Yet we still have CDM strong and people defense forces (PDF) look set to grow overnight while everything is falling apart under junta’s management. Each of us is thinking ways to contribute more in this fight and in the meantime, we must keep on doing … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs Magazine (May Issue)
Month: May 2021
Freedom Memoirs – Day 120
Myanmar is now experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the region with more than 50,000 people displaced from their homes. A Nyein, a philanthropist and a doctor, wrote on her social media that children and elderlies have to continue moving through the jungle as no one place is safe. The military has no … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 120
Freedom Memoirs – Day 119
Despite a heavy rain raging across different regions in Myanmar, people haven’t given up on voicing out our demands, and they can be seen protesting against the military regime under the rain. In Tanintharyi Region, people are still going out marching the street and staging motorcycle rallies under the torrential rain with the message loud … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 119
Freedom Memoirs – Day 118
Last night in Yangon’s Insein township, a young man on his motorbike was stopped by soldiers from Light Infantry Division 77 around 9pm. When he did not stop, the soldiers chased him with a military truck according to witnesses and rammed into the bike. The young man, who passed away with severe wound the next … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 118
Freedom Memoirs – Day 117
This morning around 8:15 am, a bomb blasted in Muse, Shan State, killing one young man and severely injuring another. The deceased was called Phoe Thingyan, just aged twenty, an employee of local garbage collecting company, who picked up a black plastic bag which turned out to be a bomb. It is a sad news … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 117
Freedom Memoirs – Day 116
Peaceful resistance against junta and its administration, State Administration Council (SAC) continues. Today, protests were held in townships of Yangon and Mandalay, Salingyi, Dawei, MyinChan, Kalay, Hpakant, Myaing, Dawei, Meiktila, and many more areas. Bombings and unrests also continue. Today witnessed bombings in Insein Roads Transportation Administration Department office and Thingangyun department of electricity, both … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 116
Freedom Memoirs – Day 115
Chaung Zin Village in Myaung township, Sagaing region has become the latest battlefield as there is an ongoing clash between junta’s forces and people defense force since this afternoon. According to Khit Thit news report, a well-equipped terrorist force came down to the village because a female pro-military supporter/informer was murdered yesterday. Instead of a … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 115
Freedom Memoirs – Day 114
Ongoing Cyclone Yaas in Bay of Bengal brought the rain which cooled down the heat, but thousands and thousands of people in Myanmar are displaced from their homes, taking refuge in safe places due to the clashes. The rain will only worsen the living situation of increasing IDPs. In Kanni township, Sagaing Region, an unknown … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 114
Freedom Memoirs – Day 113
Today is the first day to begin the admission process of basic education schools, following the junta's decision to force open schools amidst the ongoing global pandemic. Weeks passed calling for the protest against the ‘slavery education system perpetuated by the military’, and for students to boycott schools in refusal to give the military legitimacy … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 113
Freedom Memoirs – Day 112
Today, the clashes between the terrorists and Kayah People’s Defence Force (KPDF) continued to rage on, resulting with the military declaring martial law in Loikaw this afternoon at 3pm. It is honestly despicable that martial law has given the Myanmar military terrorists the complete freedom to exert their inhumane violence and power over the people … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 112