1 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: Like many people in Myanmar, the boys weren't usually. 2 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 2: Political before the protests, but what they saw in the 3 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: streets change them. This wasn't about a minor disagreement between 4 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: two parties. It was about fighting for the right to 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 2: live their life without a boot on their necks. The 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one election had delivered victory to Angsan Suchi's 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: National League for Democracy and delivered a resounding vote of 8 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 2: no confidence in the political arm of the toppler door, 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 2: the nation's military. It's worth noting here that, yes, we 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: are compressing some complex things. The elections weren't perfect, and 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 2: people in areas that were largely non bermin tend not 12 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 2: to support the NLD. The NLD had failed to prevent 13 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: a genocide, but in the country that was well accustomed 14 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: to harsh military rule, there remained a better option than 15 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: a military which saw ruling as its right and it 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 2: sold just a separate from the citizens. So when the 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 2: military lost a record number of seats, everyone knew what 18 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: would happen next, The same thing that happened in nineteen 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: eighty eight, the same thing that always happened when the 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: people came a little too close to taking power from 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 2: their military. 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 3: So that happened on February first, twenty one, and first 23 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 3: few days we didn't know what to do. We I mean, 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: we knew the military was going to make it coop 25 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 3: because one the NLD won the election. That's why, that's 26 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: how it started, right and then, and the military is 27 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: saying that they you know, they cheated, they like, I 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 3: don't know how to say, they like fucked up the 29 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: votes and you know they make themselves win. It wasn't true. 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 3: I mean, the military was not going to win at all. 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 3: Like it was because, like I said, there were changes. 32 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 3: You know, people saw those changes, and people were saying, yes, 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 3: if she had one more you know, like four more years, 34 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 3: five more years, she could make a real difference. 35 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: Those first few days of protest, everyone says felt hopeful, 36 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: just like our protagonists and Zor who he met in 37 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 2: the previous episode, thousands of young people ran into the 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: street and found solidarity in a simple politics. The fuck 39 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 2: that guy. 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 3: There were so many people, man, it's insane. So in 41 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 3: Yawadi there was I think two hundred thousand people that day. 42 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: The march's got bigger every day and it seemed like 43 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: nothing could stop them. Briefly, Western news organizations published stories, 44 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: and everyone hoped that the UN or the US or 45 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 2: the EU would show up and the Top Modo would 46 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 2: be dealt with once and for all. 47 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was trying to film, but then one of 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: the guys pointed a gun at me, and I. 49 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 4: Was like, but none of that happened. The story stopped. 50 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 4: The West never sent a single bullet or soldier, and 51 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 4: the Top Meda deployed thousands. Even after a year. All 52 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 4: the boys remember the first time they saw the force 53 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 4: of the state turned against them. Even before he got 54 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 4: out out of the border town of Malwadi, Andy saw 55 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 4: the Top Madow begin to fight back against the movement 56 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 4: that had grown up to oppose them. It's a story 57 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 4: we heard from everyone we spoke to. Once they began organizing, 58 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 4: the cops started trying to infiltrate their groups. 59 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: I think police and military started realizing that we are 60 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 3: that group too, So then they started trying to like 61 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: track down. So there was one night where two of 62 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 3: the guys almost got rested and then they run away 63 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 3: and then we're like, okay, they are kind of following us. Yeah, yeah, 64 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: and so after a week, same thing happened. I was 65 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 3: living because I wasn't from Yawadi. They didn't know. I 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 3: was just a new face, so they didn't really know 67 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 3: where I live or you know, and I always like 68 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: take like two three taxi just to get to where 69 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: I was staying. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but you like switching. No, 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 3: that was the same place, but it was out of town. 71 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 4: Three of his friends got arrested. They're still in jail. 72 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 4: Actually in jail is the best case scenario because the 73 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 4: top ma doal make a habit of executing captured activists. 74 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 4: The stakes were life and death at every moment, and 75 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 4: covering the movement on a daily basis took its toll 76 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: on Andy and his brothers too. 77 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 3: So my younger brother. They were in the capital CD 78 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 3: and that the first time the military killed someone, they 79 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: were there. They were in the same protest, so they 80 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 3: saw the whole thing, and you know, they were traumatized. 81 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: And so I thought the second time I went back in, 82 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 3: I thought, well, you know, like it's better to bring 83 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 3: them all together with me, like in the same place 84 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: and we do it together than all of us spread 85 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 3: out everywhere, you know. And like I say, my family's 86 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,239 Speaker 3: military kind of on the military side. So they didn't 87 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 3: like that my brothers were going out to protest. So 88 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: then I was like, Okay, I'm going to bring you guys, 89 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: and yeah, so we did all we did the young 90 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 3: On protests together, six of us. 91 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 4: They came face to face with the potential cost of 92 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 4: their struggle and they were in. 93 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 3: When that happened. The couple memoir. And it's military city, 94 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 3: so it's very heavily controlled by the military. And the 95 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 3: first time they went out to protest, the military shoot people. 96 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 3: And he was, yeah, there was like these trucks with 97 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 3: the water pennants. So he got hit by one and 98 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 3: like he he wasn't viewing well, so they took him 99 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 3: to the ambulance. But then once he got in there, 100 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 3: there was a guy without his eyes because they shot 101 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 3: like bullets into him. He was fucking traumatized for that. Yeah. 102 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 4: I remember when Andy says Napier Daw is a military city, 103 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 4: he isn't just saying it's a city like Colleen, Texas 104 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: or San Diego. Napio Daw is a city created out 105 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 4: of nothing starting in two thousand and two to be 106 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 4: a capital for Meanmar. If you've seen it at all, 107 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 4: it's probably in a TV show that mocks the totalitarian 108 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 4: excess of building seven lane motorways in a city that 109 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 4: was until recently only populated by the people building it. 110 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: Top Gear played carfoot ball on the empty freeways, and 111 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 4: the TV showed dark Tourists also featured the city today. 112 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 4: It is a real city with a real population, but 113 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 4: everything about it was designed to reinforce authority. And yet 114 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: the boys and thousands of others took to the streets 115 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 4: here streets built to reinforce the power of the people. 116 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 4: They were fighting to demand that the military listened to them. 117 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 4: Andy shows us a picture of the man with his 118 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 4: eyes shot out. It looks how you think it would, 119 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 4: and it is worth noting that shooting people's eyes out 120 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 4: is a time honored international policing tactic. In twenty twenty, 121 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 4: US cop shot more than one hundred and fifteen people 122 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 4: in the face with less legal munitions. Thirty suffered permanent 123 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 4: damage to their eyes. But in Myanmar everything escalated several 124 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 4: levels higher than that. Shooting out eyes wasn't radical violence 125 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,679 Speaker 4: for the Tautmadaw. They treated it more like stretching before 126 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 4: a run. In one protest, the boys saw some drunk 127 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 4: people tossing water bottles at the police. The police responded 128 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 4: with live gun fire on the polishkan fall. 129 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 5: Peoples are turned to the backside. 130 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: And they retreat. Yeah, very situation. Peoples are running. 131 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 6: They also some guys during rocks back to the police. 132 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when the police started shooting. 133 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 4: And he translated the next part for us. 134 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 3: He so he was in the protest and then they 135 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 3: started shooting and he ran away. And but he was 136 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: not in his neighborhood, in his area of the city. 137 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: He was somewhere else. So when they started running, he 138 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 3: didn't have anywhere to go. And then someone like accept 139 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: him at the house. They say coming, come in, and 140 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 3: he hid. But yeah, so yeah, he hit in the 141 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 3: for like two hours until they shooting stopped. 142 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: It wasn't until they got home that they realized the 143 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: police had killed someone. In the early days of what 144 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: became the Revolution, people formed tight bonds and made radical 145 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: commitments in the form of legal activity. While the top 146 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: model was still scrambling to counter the counter coup, everyone 147 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: felt the clamp down bite at a different time. It 148 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 2: took longer than average for the cops to find a 149 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 2: mirror and her card of revolutionaries, but eventually that day came. 150 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: It came as she and her friends were gathered in 151 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 2: a tea shop preparing for an action. 152 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 5: At that time on that day, they are trying to 153 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 5: protects in the Sanjan profniance. Yea, so before the protests 154 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 5: that they cattering the people at the tea shop. Yeah, 155 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 5: they sat in the table with her teams about including 156 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 5: her five people, but she had to go and give 157 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 5: the banner yeah to the other groups. So she's leaving 158 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 5: just about like this match. And then then the soldiers 159 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 5: came into the tea shop and then arrested her teammates. 160 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 5: She's lucky to escape, yeah, yeah, really narrow you know. Yeah. 161 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, So did she leave immediately? 162 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's how she came here because her teammates 163 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 5: know where she lives, her house and everything, so she 164 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 5: has no choice to stay in a youngle But then 165 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 5: she stay organizing her teams to the protests and the 166 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 5: younger from here? From here? 167 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: What did her parents think when she had to leave? 168 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 3: Right? 169 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 5: So her parents told her, uh, the survival, it is 170 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 5: the first so she can't do whatever she wants and 171 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 5: then but she have to be on her own, okay, 172 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 5: well yeah, and then they don't they agree, you know, 173 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 5: like if if she wants to leave, just leave. If 174 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 5: she s they want to do the you know, protesting 175 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 5: or whatever she wants, and they're not saying no to her. 176 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: But they're not supporting it. They're just sort of thing. 177 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 1: She's on her own. 178 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, she's on her own. That that's how last night 179 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 5: I told you guys that she lost her inheritance, like 180 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 5: you know, she had to give up on everything. 181 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 2: Well, ever, in San Francisco, t K could see what 182 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 2: was happening through his scouts on the ground and soldiers 183 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 2: posts on Facebook. He started to amass a huge amount 184 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 2: of intel. He also knew where the underground groups and 185 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: what obedience movement centers were in the cities, and when 186 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: he saw the cops of the military coming for them, 187 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: he was able to give them a heads up. 188 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 5: So whenever we we have like uh, you know, uh 189 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 5: information about from the you know, some CDM soldiers, some 190 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 5: city and police, and then they give him the informations 191 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 5: a hat so we got the informations, so like, okay, 192 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 5: those guys are going to the you know, let's say, okay, 193 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 5: this place and then within one hour there so from 194 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 5: that place, whoever live in the underground teams move out yeah, 195 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 5: get yeah, so so so that kind of things. Uh 196 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 5: with with that, we save a lot of people too, 197 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 5: And then we got arrested people too, But we also 198 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 5: saved people. 199 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 2: Everyone we spoke to you told us the same story. 200 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 2: They went into the street thinking that if they made 201 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: enough noise, the world would listen, and that the US 202 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: or the EU or the UN would defend democracy and 203 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: evoke their responsibility to protect innocent people being gunned down 204 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 2: in the street, to quote from the online publication of 205 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 2: the Diplomat endorsed by all Member States of the United 206 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: Nations in two thousand and five. R two P Advance 207 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 2: is a potentially revolutionary idea that state sovereignty entails a 208 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 2: responsibility for a government to protect its population from massa 209 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 2: trusty crimes and human rights violations. When a nation fails 210 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 2: to exercise this responsibility, R two P grants the international 211 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: community the legal warrant to intervene. The doctrine authorizes the 212 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: use for a range of coercive tools, which military intervention 213 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: as a last resort. People in Myanmar thought that if 214 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 2: they were peaceful, civil and respectable, the government of the 215 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 2: world would do the right thing. The government of the world, however, 216 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 2: didn't give a fuck. 217 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 3: But yeah, so the protests are very very peaceful. You know. 218 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 3: It's when you go into the protest, it's very peaceful, 219 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: very organized, very it's they try to make it look 220 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 3: so clean, so nice, because I guess you know, no, 221 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 3: it was at the beginning they were trying to get 222 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 3: attention from the international community, and they were hoping that 223 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 3: someone will come in and say, you know, take down 224 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 3: the military and put our government back. Yeah, a lot 225 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: of people die, just like there was a saying like 226 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 3: to you, and you know, people were saying how many like, 227 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 3: how many dead people do you need for you to 228 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 3: take action? Right? And there are people saying I will 229 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 3: if you need one more, I'll be that person. I'll 230 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 3: just fucking die. I'll just get killed by the military 231 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 3: so that you will come in and fix it and 232 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 3: change this situation in the country. 233 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: Right. 234 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 2: Amiror felt the same. She even organized a protest five 235 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 2: hundred people displaying a map of the whole country on 236 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 2: the river in Yangon. She called it a suicide mission, 237 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 2: but she thought it would send a visible signal to 238 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 2: the world and it was worth risking her life to 239 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 2: make the statement. 240 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 3: I realized. 241 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 5: At the time. She she she didn't know anything about 242 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 5: the politics, so she believed in our two p because uh, 243 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 5: people are protesting peacefully, but the government take the ash 244 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 5: in so other countries not gonna wait and un see 245 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 5: and then they're gonna take the actions about that. That's 246 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 5: what she believed in. And then she she decided to 247 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 5: go protesting peacefully theater and. 248 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 4: Okay, did she think that other countries, United States, whatever, 249 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 4: we're gonna come in and intervene. 250 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that that that's what she thought, Like you know, 251 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 5: when the wall see the government take the ashans and 252 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 5: the government are killing people, and if they if the 253 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 5: war knows, and then we can get a hab from 254 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 5: the from the other countries. 255 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 2: Where they did find support within other countries in Asia 256 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 2: fighting against dictatorship, they formed so called milk Tea. Aligns 257 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 2: drew on the example of Hong Kong to learn how 258 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: to stay in the streets where the government doesn't want 259 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 2: you there. 260 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: But then one happens in our country, it's like, oh fuck, 261 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 3: where does it happen before? And then we went back 262 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 3: straight with Hong Kong and there was it's not just us, 263 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 3: like there was so much infographics and like you know, 264 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 3: how to be in the protest, how to do certain things. 265 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 3: It depending on the situation. So we had a lot 266 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 3: of information. We were yeah, we were looking through and 267 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: I think that these are the same thing that like 268 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,479 Speaker 3: people in Hong Kong used, I think. 269 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: But Hong Kong didn't have snipers shooting kids in the 270 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: head or cops furrowing rifles blindly into crowds. 271 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 3: But then later on, like by the time we got 272 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 3: to young and people were sitting down, they were little protests. 273 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 3: What the military does is they were coming and they 274 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 3: would just start shooting everyone. There was no there's no negotiation, 275 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: there was no hey, guys, can you move? And then 276 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 3: you know, any any of that stuff. They would coming 277 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 3: and they they would treat this as a battlefield. And 278 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 3: it didn't take a while. It didn't well, it did 279 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: take a while. I think it took about like a 280 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 3: month and a half for us to finally say, fuck 281 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: the peaceful protests, Fuck the international community, they're not coming. 282 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 3: If they were to come, they would have come a 283 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 3: long time ago, you know. And we started fighting back. 284 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 3: But when we say we fight back, it's like molotolf cocktails, slingshots. 285 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: Doctor Wonder knew exactly when and how place he would 286 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: spend his days triarging people who would survive from those 287 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: who might not make it. Soon, the worst nightmares of 288 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: his medical team are coming true. The police began seizing 289 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 2: his colleagues the alleged crime of saving lives. 290 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 6: I remember before the Meli police amilyfi man and totally 291 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 6: totally impluded our hospital one day. I think at the 292 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 6: midda of their may Okay, they totally interluded our horse 293 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 6: there because they have far, they have hearts. Our city 294 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 6: and doctors are doing operations at that hospital because we 295 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 6: have no no, no another place like that traumassetter. We 296 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 6: we could give uh good treatment for that traumatic patient 297 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 6: because we have to. 298 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 3: Take a risk. 299 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 6: So we're gonna take a rest soon. One of our 300 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 6: concenters was arrested at that emergency unit. Wow, okay, because 301 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 6: he took he took also his rais. But if he 302 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 6: wasn't here, his junior can can't handle that situation. 303 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 3: You know. 304 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 6: You know, so many tense handress injury injury patients on 305 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 6: that day mostly are can short patient. You know, Samma 306 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 6: open a doomen open limes. Okay, so we have so 307 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 6: many prices. 308 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: On that Now things only got worse m yeah. 309 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. There was a pregnant woman who got shot and 310 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 3: obviously with the kids better and she died because she 311 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 3: accepted like twenty protesters in her house and when they came, 312 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 3: they shot her death. And she wasn't like five weeks 313 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 3: or it's it's you can see that she was pregnant. 314 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 3: The military, you straight up real bullets, like they don't 315 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 3: give a shit, They don't give a shit that the 316 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 3: way the military controlled people is fear right, So then 317 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 3: they want people to see that if you go against me, 318 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 3: you'll die horribly, and they shoot hat. We saw so 319 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 3: many faces with holes, you know, so many people with 320 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 3: holes in their face. It was fucked up, and it 321 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 3: was scary because every time you go out, you're saying, 322 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 3: that could be me, that could be my brothers, that 323 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 3: could be you know. 324 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 2: Very quickly the revolution organized itself, not with hierarchies, officers, 325 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: or vanguard parties. The people who'd existed in those roles 326 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 2: had already been arrested or fled, so instead the revolution 327 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 2: started with people giving whatever they could to the struggle 328 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 2: and taking whatever they needed to get by the revolutionaries 329 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 2: we interviewed all initially thought that the struggle would be 330 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 2: sure that the world would come to their aid. But 331 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 2: even when it became clear that this was not the case, 332 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: they continued to fight under the logic it's better to 333 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 2: die than live with a boote on your neck. 334 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 3: They took all the leaders from the opposition side, so 335 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 3: there was no one to tell us what to do. 336 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 3: There was no instructions, right, so there was like two 337 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 3: days of Okay, what the fuck do we do? You know? 338 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 3: And then people started protesting, but small, like very small, 339 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 3: and then I think after like five days then there 340 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 3: was like two hundred thousand people everywhere. Like no that 341 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 3: I remember the first day we arrived. I mean, we 342 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 3: haven't seen each other but since COVID started, so it 343 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: was like, ah, well there, you know, back again and together. 344 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 3: And then yeah, it was fun for like one night 345 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: and then we're all hanging out and trying to plan 346 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 3: what we're going to do the next day. So basically 347 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 3: we kind of planned that, like each of us have 348 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 3: a role, and our plan was to go out and 349 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 3: kind of be like a media crew. Right, so we're filming, 350 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 3: we're writing news, we're posting on the internet so that 351 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 3: everywhere else people can see it. So yeah, two of 352 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 3: us are like the camera people, and then this too. 353 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: They look out for the roads and streets, like because 354 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 3: these places. We've never been right Dane in these areas, 355 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 3: So whenever we go to a protest, we'll sit down 356 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 3: or we'll walk around and take photos while these twos 357 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 3: goes around and look for the fastest escapes, you know, 358 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 3: if the military come in, what will be the best 359 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 3: way to go, you know, you know, escape. And then 360 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,719 Speaker 3: him and another one they kind of look after us. 361 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,959 Speaker 3: They look at the news to see what's happening around us, 362 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 3: so that if there's a posts on Facebook saying oh 363 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 3: or some military truck heading towards you, we kind of 364 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 3: be prepared, you know. But yeah, I was. Yeah, So 365 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 3: we had a lot of energy at that time. It 366 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 3: was like a contant. We were going out and you 367 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 3: can see like always following me, Like that's me and him, 368 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 3: and he's always following me everywhere I go, so that 369 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 3: if something happening and he's grabbed me. 370 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 4: While the boys and Andy were reporting, Amira found her 371 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 4: calling on the front lines. It's almost impossible to stress 372 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 4: how incredible she is. Before we recorded, she casually dropped 373 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 4: into conversation that she also trained in knife fighting. Sometimes 374 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 4: we met her at a shooting range near my sot 375 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 4: and blasted a few paper targets together with a twelve 376 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 4: gage shotgun we'd been using for a bit of target practice. 377 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 4: When it jammed, and it always jammed, she cleared the 378 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 4: chamber and got it back into action with a practiced 379 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 4: efficiency that any formally trained soldier would have recognized. In 380 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 4: the revolution, it didn't take long for her to find 381 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 4: her way to the front lines, and she's got the 382 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 4: scars to prove it, including some from hucking a tear 383 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 4: gas grenade bare handed back at the cops. Others adopted 384 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 4: roles too. Some picked up shields and took on the 385 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 4: police toe to toe. Other supported protesters with medical aid 386 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 4: and food and water. 387 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 3: So you can see the shield two, three, four or five, yeah, 388 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 3: to make it. And then you can see that they 389 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 3: have these wet like plastic bags to like wash people's 390 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 3: faces when they're two gas or like two killed the 391 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 3: smokes with wet towels too, and then there's someone always 392 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 3: water in it like you see here. Yeah, And this 393 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 3: is all from the neighborhood like they provided to us. 394 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 4: They built barricades and even developed a system of communications 395 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 4: for when things were getting violent. This allowed folks who 396 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 4: were not comfortable to get away, or at least that 397 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 4: was the goal. 398 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 3: So the white flag means like we have this place, 399 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 3: like this is our but then the black flag means 400 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 3: will fuck you up back, like if you've done so 401 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 3: much that we're going to fuck you up. You know, 402 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 3: I have a video of it when it changed from 403 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 3: white to black. 404 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 4: Their tactics improved over time. When one group got kettled, 405 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 4: another group would pop up nearby and draw soldiers away. 406 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so and then there was one time when 407 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 3: one one part of the city was under attacked by 408 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 3: the military. A lot of protesters were trapped in there, 409 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: and so we decided to go out. So every other 410 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 3: parts of the city came out at nighttime to protest, 411 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 3: so that they soldiers have. 412 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 4: To kind of Yeah, a mirror too, came face to 413 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 4: face with state violence. 414 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, she wants to take the ashen bag because they 415 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 5: are all protesting peacefully and at the time she wants 416 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 5: to have a super power. 417 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: M M, yeah, maybe she does. Uh, what what did 418 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: she what did she decide to do? What did they 419 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: do at that time? 420 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 5: And then she feels like she's going to the act 421 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 5: and then she will keep moving and then she will 422 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 5: participate in every role that she can, and then she 423 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 5: would do as much as she can. That's that's what 424 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 5: she decided to. 425 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: We saw that. 426 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 2: Picture of her in front of the car and it 427 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 2: was Bernie, we're half in there. Were they throwing molotov cocktails? 428 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 6: Yeah? 429 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 5: Okay, so like smoke bombs and then something like that, 430 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,640 Speaker 5: and then she's trying to throw them back the picture. 431 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, so she picked it up and then 432 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 5: she told them back. 433 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: You hurt your hand, Yeah, you have a scar? 434 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 3: Fuck? 435 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: Oh wow yeah yeah. 436 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 5: Then she got hit by the smoke bone like a twice. 437 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 5: And then at that time she lost everything. She lost 438 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 5: her pats, she lost her phones, and someone have her 439 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 5: to hold and took her back. 440 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 3: Okay, that's how she escaped. 441 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: Wow, they helped you to know who helped you? Was 442 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: it a friend or just a stranger? 443 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 5: Her friensis with her and I when the tear guls 444 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 5: hit down and then the other strangers had them and 445 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 5: she got hit by the tear guls and then she 446 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 5: almost faded and a black out. 447 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 2: Our doctor who goes by Wonder faced a difficult choice 448 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 2: returning to the hospital meant risking arrest. The military could 449 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: come in at any time to arrest injured protesters and 450 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 2: the doctors helping them, but not going back the letting 451 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 2: his comrades die, state violence increased. He decided he needed 452 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: to help. 453 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 6: They killed so many graceful protesters on that day. I 454 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 6: think roundabout nearly round one hundred or more might be 455 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 6: more than that we see, yes on that day, you know, 456 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 6: or because we have already we have already started say 457 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 6: the discoveredient movement on that on that time, because we 458 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 6: didn't go the hospital there that was ruined by that 459 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 6: genres Okay, okay, so we dere outside the hospital, you know. 460 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 6: We we managed temporary camp like that because for emergency 461 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 6: injury patients at that time I was involved one of 462 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 6: the campsite. Yeah, because but actually we can't deal yea 463 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 6: some of the injury pe that may need for emergency 464 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 6: operation like that bullet go through, Yeah, go to break 465 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 6: the bones and open moon. So but we have to 466 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 6: take the ricks because we have to operate that patient. 467 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 6: We go to hospital trauma emergency department. We did our operation. 468 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 6: I remember at that night, one of the pasions was 469 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 6: shot down by police and they chased, they followed that patient. 470 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 6: We kept that pasion in our hospital in our war 471 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 6: We emergency, we did emergency operation on that at that night, 472 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 6: on that night, and we emergently moved him out on 473 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 6: that night because we can't keep him on that hospital 474 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 6: because uh, soon he just left our hospital. The police 475 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 6: just came and such for him. But this is one 476 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 6: of our streams. It was, uh, they just quite there again, 477 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 6: where is that guy? 478 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 2: TK got on telegram? Lots of people couldn't be on 479 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: the ground fighting, but they still wanted to be part 480 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: of the struggle. He developed good connections with people on 481 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 2: the ground, but first that was just him desperately try 482 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 2: and stay informed. But soon he realized he was well 483 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 2: placed to be doing the informing. With internet access cutoff 484 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 2: VPNs flowing down, only someone outside the country with blazing 485 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 2: fast Bay Area WiFi could collate all the info coming in. 486 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 2: I turn it into useful, actionable advice for protesters on 487 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 2: the ground. 488 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 5: At that time, we know nothing about it. No one's 489 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 5: no one's teaching us what to do. 490 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have to do it, do it, you know, 491 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: like we we we met. 492 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 5: We like I said, we have a seventy people. So 493 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 5: we have a meeting every day, every night, so we 494 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 5: try to you know, brainstorming what we're gonna do. Yeah, 495 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 5: and then so we made we make in the plants 496 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 5: and now we make in like, Okay, we're gonna get 497 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 5: the informations from you know, every single details that we 498 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 5: can get, and that that's we're gonna share to the people. 499 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 5: That's what we're gonna share to the unaground team, send 500 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 5: other people. 501 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: Within a few weeks, it had become clear that a 502 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 2: diverse range of people, tactics, and tools are going to 503 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 2: be needed in the fight for. 504 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: Freedom in Meanma. 505 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 2: Next time we'll talk about how that fight took shape 506 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: and tell you what it's like today. 507 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, it's James here. 508 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 2: I just wanted to note that lots of the words 509 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 2: in the script are Burmese or Karen or Thai, and 510 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: we've made every effort to make sure that we pronounce 511 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 2: them correctly. But we sure we've obviously made some mistakes 512 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 2: along the way. That's not out of a lack of 513 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 2: respect or out of a lack of rerecording on my part, 514 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: but we did want to note that where we've made 515 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 2: a mistake, we're very sorry for doing so. 516 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 5: It Could Happen Here as a production of cool Zone Media. 517 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 5: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 518 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 5: cool zonemedia dot com or check us out on the 519 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 520 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 5: You can find sources for It could Happen Here, updated 521 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 5: monthly at cool zonemedia dot com slash sources. Thanks for listening.