Speaker 1: Like many people in Myanmar, the boys weren't usually.
Speaker 2: Political before the protests, but what they saw in the
Speaker 2: streets change them. This wasn't about a minor disagreement between
Speaker 2: two parties. It was about fighting for the right to
Speaker 2: live their life without a boot on their necks. The
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one election had delivered victory to Angsan Suchi's
Speaker 2: National League for Democracy and delivered a resounding vote of
Speaker 2: no confidence in the political arm of the toppler door,
Speaker 2: the nation's military. It's worth noting here that, yes, we
Speaker 2: are compressing some complex things. The elections weren't perfect, and
Speaker 2: people in areas that were largely non bermin tend not
Speaker 2: to support the NLD. The NLD had failed to prevent
Speaker 2: a genocide, but in the country that was well accustomed
Speaker 2: to harsh military rule, there remained a better option than
Speaker 2: a military which saw ruling as its right and it
Speaker 2: sold just a separate from the citizens. So when the
Speaker 2: military lost a record number of seats, everyone knew what
Speaker 2: would happen next, The same thing that happened in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight, the same thing that always happened when the
Speaker 2: people came a little too close to taking power from
Speaker 2: their military.
Speaker 3: So that happened on February first, twenty one, and first
Speaker 3: few days we didn't know what to do. We I mean,
Speaker 3: we knew the military was going to make it coop
Speaker 3: because one the NLD won the election. That's why, that's
Speaker 3: how it started, right and then, and the military is
Speaker 3: saying that they you know, they cheated, they like, I
Speaker 3: don't know how to say, they like fucked up the
Speaker 3: votes and you know they make themselves win. It wasn't true.
Speaker 3: I mean, the military was not going to win at all.
Speaker 3: Like it was because, like I said, there were changes.
Speaker 3: You know, people saw those changes, and people were saying, yes,
Speaker 3: if she had one more you know, like four more years,
Speaker 3: five more years, she could make a real difference.
Speaker 2: Those first few days of protest, everyone says felt hopeful,
Speaker 2: just like our protagonists and Zor who he met in
Speaker 2: the previous episode, thousands of young people ran into the
Speaker 2: street and found solidarity in a simple politics. The fuck
Speaker 2: that guy.
Speaker 3: There were so many people, man, it's insane. So in
Speaker 3: Yawadi there was I think two hundred thousand people that day.
Speaker 2: The march's got bigger every day and it seemed like
Speaker 2: nothing could stop them. Briefly, Western news organizations published stories,
Speaker 2: and everyone hoped that the UN or the US or
Speaker 2: the EU would show up and the Top Modo would
Speaker 2: be dealt with once and for all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was trying to film, but then one of
Speaker 3: the guys pointed a gun at me, and I.
Speaker 4: Was like, but none of that happened. The story stopped.
Speaker 4: The West never sent a single bullet or soldier, and
Speaker 4: the Top Meda deployed thousands. Even after a year. All
Speaker 4: the boys remember the first time they saw the force
Speaker 4: of the state turned against them. Even before he got
Speaker 4: out out of the border town of Malwadi, Andy saw
Speaker 4: the Top Madow begin to fight back against the movement
Speaker 4: that had grown up to oppose them. It's a story
Speaker 4: we heard from everyone we spoke to. Once they began organizing,
Speaker 4: the cops started trying to infiltrate their groups.
Speaker 3: I think police and military started realizing that we are
Speaker 3: that group too, So then they started trying to like
Speaker 3: track down. So there was one night where two of
Speaker 3: the guys almost got rested and then they run away
Speaker 3: and then we're like, okay, they are kind of following us. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and so after a week, same thing happened. I was
Speaker 3: living because I wasn't from Yawadi. They didn't know. I
Speaker 3: was just a new face, so they didn't really know
Speaker 3: where I live or you know, and I always like
Speaker 3: take like two three taxi just to get to where
Speaker 3: I was staying. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but you like switching. No,
Speaker 3: that was the same place, but it was out of town.
Speaker 4: Three of his friends got arrested. They're still in jail.
Speaker 4: Actually in jail is the best case scenario because the
Speaker 4: top ma doal make a habit of executing captured activists.
Speaker 4: The stakes were life and death at every moment, and
Speaker 4: covering the movement on a daily basis took its toll
Speaker 4: on Andy and his brothers too.
Speaker 3: So my younger brother. They were in the capital CD
Speaker 3: and that the first time the military killed someone, they
Speaker 3: were there. They were in the same protest, so they
Speaker 3: saw the whole thing, and you know, they were traumatized.
Speaker 3: And so I thought the second time I went back in,
Speaker 3: I thought, well, you know, like it's better to bring
Speaker 3: them all together with me, like in the same place
Speaker 3: and we do it together than all of us spread
Speaker 3: out everywhere, you know. And like I say, my family's
Speaker 3: military kind of on the military side. So they didn't
Speaker 3: like that my brothers were going out to protest. So
Speaker 3: then I was like, Okay, I'm going to bring you guys,
Speaker 3: and yeah, so we did all we did the young
Speaker 3: On protests together, six of us.
Speaker 4: They came face to face with the potential cost of
Speaker 4: their struggle and they were in.
Speaker 3: When that happened. The couple memoir. And it's military city,
Speaker 3: so it's very heavily controlled by the military. And the
Speaker 3: first time they went out to protest, the military shoot people.
Speaker 3: And he was, yeah, there was like these trucks with
Speaker 3: the water pennants. So he got hit by one and
Speaker 3: like he he wasn't viewing well, so they took him
Speaker 3: to the ambulance. But then once he got in there,
Speaker 3: there was a guy without his eyes because they shot
Speaker 3: like bullets into him. He was fucking traumatized for that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember when Andy says Napier Daw is a military city,
Speaker 4: he isn't just saying it's a city like Colleen, Texas
Speaker 4: or San Diego. Napio Daw is a city created out
Speaker 4: of nothing starting in two thousand and two to be
Speaker 4: a capital for Meanmar. If you've seen it at all,
Speaker 4: it's probably in a TV show that mocks the totalitarian
Speaker 4: excess of building seven lane motorways in a city that
Speaker 4: was until recently only populated by the people building it.
Speaker 4: Top Gear played carfoot ball on the empty freeways, and
Speaker 4: the TV showed dark Tourists also featured the city today.
Speaker 4: It is a real city with a real population, but
Speaker 4: everything about it was designed to reinforce authority. And yet
Speaker 4: the boys and thousands of others took to the streets
Speaker 4: here streets built to reinforce the power of the people.
Speaker 4: They were fighting to demand that the military listened to them.
Speaker 4: Andy shows us a picture of the man with his
Speaker 4: eyes shot out. It looks how you think it would,
Speaker 4: and it is worth noting that shooting people's eyes out
Speaker 4: is a time honored international policing tactic. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: US cop shot more than one hundred and fifteen people
Speaker 4: in the face with less legal munitions. Thirty suffered permanent
Speaker 4: damage to their eyes. But in Myanmar everything escalated several
Speaker 4: levels higher than that. Shooting out eyes wasn't radical violence
Speaker 4: for the Tautmadaw. They treated it more like stretching before
Speaker 4: a run. In one protest, the boys saw some drunk
Speaker 4: people tossing water bottles at the police. The police responded
Speaker 4: with live gun fire on the polishkan fall.
Speaker 5: Peoples are turned to the backside.
Speaker 1: And they retreat. Yeah, very situation. Peoples are running.
Speaker 6: They also some guys during rocks back to the police.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when the police started shooting.
Speaker 4: And he translated the next part for us.
Speaker 3: He so he was in the protest and then they
Speaker 3: started shooting and he ran away. And but he was
Speaker 3: not in his neighborhood, in his area of the city.
Speaker 3: He was somewhere else. So when they started running, he
Speaker 3: didn't have anywhere to go. And then someone like accept
Speaker 3: him at the house. They say coming, come in, and
Speaker 3: he hid. But yeah, so yeah, he hit in the
Speaker 3: for like two hours until they shooting stopped.
Speaker 2: It wasn't until they got home that they realized the
Speaker 2: police had killed someone. In the early days of what
Speaker 2: became the Revolution, people formed tight bonds and made radical
Speaker 2: commitments in the form of legal activity. While the top
Speaker 2: model was still scrambling to counter the counter coup, everyone
Speaker 2: felt the clamp down bite at a different time. It
Speaker 2: took longer than average for the cops to find a
Speaker 2: mirror and her card of revolutionaries, but eventually that day came.
Speaker 2: It came as she and her friends were gathered in
Speaker 2: a tea shop preparing for an action.
Speaker 5: At that time on that day, they are trying to
Speaker 5: protects in the Sanjan profniance. Yea, so before the protests
Speaker 5: that they cattering the people at the tea shop. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they sat in the table with her teams about including
Speaker 5: her five people, but she had to go and give
Speaker 5: the banner yeah to the other groups. So she's leaving
Speaker 5: just about like this match. And then then the soldiers
Speaker 5: came into the tea shop and then arrested her teammates.
Speaker 5: She's lucky to escape, yeah, yeah, really narrow you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So did she leave immediately?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's how she came here because her teammates
Speaker 5: know where she lives, her house and everything, so she
Speaker 5: has no choice to stay in a youngle But then
Speaker 5: she stay organizing her teams to the protests and the
Speaker 5: younger from here? From here?
Speaker 1: What did her parents think when she had to leave?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: So her parents told her, uh, the survival, it is
Speaker 5: the first so she can't do whatever she wants and
Speaker 5: then but she have to be on her own, okay,
Speaker 5: well yeah, and then they don't they agree, you know,
Speaker 5: like if if she wants to leave, just leave. If
Speaker 5: she s they want to do the you know, protesting
Speaker 5: or whatever she wants, and they're not saying no to her.
Speaker 1: But they're not supporting it. They're just sort of thing.
Speaker 1: She's on her own.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's on her own. That that's how last night
Speaker 5: I told you guys that she lost her inheritance, like
Speaker 5: you know, she had to give up on everything.
Speaker 2: Well, ever, in San Francisco, t K could see what
Speaker 2: was happening through his scouts on the ground and soldiers
Speaker 2: posts on Facebook. He started to amass a huge amount
Speaker 2: of intel. He also knew where the underground groups and
Speaker 2: what obedience movement centers were in the cities, and when
Speaker 2: he saw the cops of the military coming for them,
Speaker 2: he was able to give them a heads up.
Speaker 5: So whenever we we have like uh, you know, uh
Speaker 5: information about from the you know, some CDM soldiers, some
Speaker 5: city and police, and then they give him the informations
Speaker 5: a hat so we got the informations, so like, okay,
Speaker 5: those guys are going to the you know, let's say, okay,
Speaker 5: this place and then within one hour there so from
Speaker 5: that place, whoever live in the underground teams move out yeah,
Speaker 5: get yeah, so so so that kind of things. Uh
Speaker 5: with with that, we save a lot of people too,
Speaker 5: And then we got arrested people too, But we also
Speaker 5: saved people.
Speaker 2: Everyone we spoke to you told us the same story.
Speaker 2: They went into the street thinking that if they made
Speaker 2: enough noise, the world would listen, and that the US
Speaker 2: or the EU or the UN would defend democracy and
Speaker 2: evoke their responsibility to protect innocent people being gunned down
Speaker 2: in the street, to quote from the online publication of
Speaker 2: the Diplomat endorsed by all Member States of the United
Speaker 2: Nations in two thousand and five. R two P Advance
Speaker 2: is a potentially revolutionary idea that state sovereignty entails a
Speaker 2: responsibility for a government to protect its population from massa
Speaker 2: trusty crimes and human rights violations. When a nation fails
Speaker 2: to exercise this responsibility, R two P grants the international
Speaker 2: community the legal warrant to intervene. The doctrine authorizes the
Speaker 2: use for a range of coercive tools, which military intervention
Speaker 2: as a last resort. People in Myanmar thought that if
Speaker 2: they were peaceful, civil and respectable, the government of the
Speaker 2: world would do the right thing. The government of the world, however,
Speaker 2: didn't give a fuck.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so the protests are very very peaceful. You know.
Speaker 3: It's when you go into the protest, it's very peaceful,
Speaker 3: very organized, very it's they try to make it look
Speaker 3: so clean, so nice, because I guess you know, no,
Speaker 3: it was at the beginning they were trying to get
Speaker 3: attention from the international community, and they were hoping that
Speaker 3: someone will come in and say, you know, take down
Speaker 3: the military and put our government back. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 3: of people die, just like there was a saying like
Speaker 3: to you, and you know, people were saying how many like,
Speaker 3: how many dead people do you need for you to
Speaker 3: take action? Right? And there are people saying I will
Speaker 3: if you need one more, I'll be that person. I'll
Speaker 3: just fucking die. I'll just get killed by the military
Speaker 3: so that you will come in and fix it and
Speaker 3: change this situation in the country.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Amiror felt the same. She even organized a protest five
Speaker 2: hundred people displaying a map of the whole country on
Speaker 2: the river in Yangon. She called it a suicide mission,
Speaker 2: but she thought it would send a visible signal to
Speaker 2: the world and it was worth risking her life to
Speaker 2: make the statement.
Speaker 3: I realized.
Speaker 5: At the time. She she she didn't know anything about
Speaker 5: the politics, so she believed in our two p because uh,
Speaker 5: people are protesting peacefully, but the government take the ash
Speaker 5: in so other countries not gonna wait and un see
Speaker 5: and then they're gonna take the actions about that. That's
Speaker 5: what she believed in. And then she she decided to
Speaker 5: go protesting peacefully theater and.
Speaker 4: Okay, did she think that other countries, United States, whatever,
Speaker 4: we're gonna come in and intervene.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that that that's what she thought, Like you know,
Speaker 5: when the wall see the government take the ashans and
Speaker 5: the government are killing people, and if they if the
Speaker 5: war knows, and then we can get a hab from
Speaker 5: the from the other countries.
Speaker 2: Where they did find support within other countries in Asia
Speaker 2: fighting against dictatorship, they formed so called milk Tea. Aligns
Speaker 2: drew on the example of Hong Kong to learn how
Speaker 2: to stay in the streets where the government doesn't want
Speaker 2: you there.
Speaker 3: But then one happens in our country, it's like, oh fuck,
Speaker 3: where does it happen before? And then we went back
Speaker 3: straight with Hong Kong and there was it's not just us,
Speaker 3: like there was so much infographics and like you know,
Speaker 3: how to be in the protest, how to do certain things.
Speaker 3: It depending on the situation. So we had a lot
Speaker 3: of information. We were yeah, we were looking through and
Speaker 3: I think that these are the same thing that like
Speaker 3: people in Hong Kong used, I think.
Speaker 2: But Hong Kong didn't have snipers shooting kids in the
Speaker 2: head or cops furrowing rifles blindly into crowds.
Speaker 3: But then later on, like by the time we got
Speaker 3: to young and people were sitting down, they were little protests.
Speaker 3: What the military does is they were coming and they
Speaker 3: would just start shooting everyone. There was no there's no negotiation,
Speaker 3: there was no hey, guys, can you move? And then
Speaker 3: you know, any any of that stuff. They would coming
Speaker 3: and they they would treat this as a battlefield. And
Speaker 3: it didn't take a while. It didn't well, it did
Speaker 3: take a while. I think it took about like a
Speaker 3: month and a half for us to finally say, fuck
Speaker 3: the peaceful protests, Fuck the international community, they're not coming.
Speaker 3: If they were to come, they would have come a
Speaker 3: long time ago, you know. And we started fighting back.
Speaker 3: But when we say we fight back, it's like molotolf cocktails, slingshots.
Speaker 2: Doctor Wonder knew exactly when and how place he would
Speaker 2: spend his days triarging people who would survive from those
Speaker 2: who might not make it. Soon, the worst nightmares of
Speaker 2: his medical team are coming true. The police began seizing
Speaker 2: his colleagues the alleged crime of saving lives.
Speaker 6: I remember before the Meli police amilyfi man and totally
Speaker 6: totally impluded our hospital one day. I think at the
Speaker 6: midda of their may Okay, they totally interluded our horse
Speaker 6: there because they have far, they have hearts. Our city
Speaker 6: and doctors are doing operations at that hospital because we
Speaker 6: have no no, no another place like that traumassetter. We
Speaker 6: we could give uh good treatment for that traumatic patient
Speaker 6: because we have to.
Speaker 3: Take a risk.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna take a rest soon. One of our
Speaker 6: concenters was arrested at that emergency unit. Wow, okay, because
Speaker 6: he took he took also his rais. But if he
Speaker 6: wasn't here, his junior can can't handle that situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: You know, so many tense handress injury injury patients on
Speaker 6: that day mostly are can short patient. You know, Samma
Speaker 6: open a doomen open limes. Okay, so we have so
Speaker 6: many prices.
Speaker 1: On that Now things only got worse m yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. There was a pregnant woman who got shot and
Speaker 3: obviously with the kids better and she died because she
Speaker 3: accepted like twenty protesters in her house and when they came,
Speaker 3: they shot her death. And she wasn't like five weeks
Speaker 3: or it's it's you can see that she was pregnant.
Speaker 3: The military, you straight up real bullets, like they don't
Speaker 3: give a shit, They don't give a shit that the
Speaker 3: way the military controlled people is fear right, So then
Speaker 3: they want people to see that if you go against me,
Speaker 3: you'll die horribly, and they shoot hat. We saw so
Speaker 3: many faces with holes, you know, so many people with
Speaker 3: holes in their face. It was fucked up, and it
Speaker 3: was scary because every time you go out, you're saying,
Speaker 3: that could be me, that could be my brothers, that
Speaker 3: could be you know.
Speaker 2: Very quickly the revolution organized itself, not with hierarchies, officers,
Speaker 2: or vanguard parties. The people who'd existed in those roles
Speaker 2: had already been arrested or fled, so instead the revolution
Speaker 2: started with people giving whatever they could to the struggle
Speaker 2: and taking whatever they needed to get by the revolutionaries
Speaker 2: we interviewed all initially thought that the struggle would be
Speaker 2: sure that the world would come to their aid. But
Speaker 2: even when it became clear that this was not the case,
Speaker 2: they continued to fight under the logic it's better to
Speaker 2: die than live with a boote on your neck.
Speaker 3: They took all the leaders from the opposition side, so
Speaker 3: there was no one to tell us what to do.
Speaker 3: There was no instructions, right, so there was like two
Speaker 3: days of Okay, what the fuck do we do? You know?
Speaker 3: And then people started protesting, but small, like very small,
Speaker 3: and then I think after like five days then there
Speaker 3: was like two hundred thousand people everywhere. Like no that
Speaker 3: I remember the first day we arrived. I mean, we
Speaker 3: haven't seen each other but since COVID started, so it
Speaker 3: was like, ah, well there, you know, back again and together.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, it was fun for like one night
Speaker 3: and then we're all hanging out and trying to plan
Speaker 3: what we're going to do the next day. So basically
Speaker 3: we kind of planned that, like each of us have
Speaker 3: a role, and our plan was to go out and
Speaker 3: kind of be like a media crew. Right, so we're filming,
Speaker 3: we're writing news, we're posting on the internet so that
Speaker 3: everywhere else people can see it. So yeah, two of
Speaker 3: us are like the camera people, and then this too.
Speaker 3: They look out for the roads and streets, like because
Speaker 3: these places. We've never been right Dane in these areas,
Speaker 3: So whenever we go to a protest, we'll sit down
Speaker 3: or we'll walk around and take photos while these twos
Speaker 3: goes around and look for the fastest escapes, you know,
Speaker 3: if the military come in, what will be the best
Speaker 3: way to go, you know, you know, escape. And then
Speaker 3: him and another one they kind of look after us.
Speaker 3: They look at the news to see what's happening around us,
Speaker 3: so that if there's a posts on Facebook saying oh
Speaker 3: or some military truck heading towards you, we kind of
Speaker 3: be prepared, you know. But yeah, I was. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: we had a lot of energy at that time. It
Speaker 3: was like a contant. We were going out and you
Speaker 3: can see like always following me, Like that's me and him,
Speaker 3: and he's always following me everywhere I go, so that
Speaker 3: if something happening and he's grabbed me.
Speaker 4: While the boys and Andy were reporting, Amira found her
Speaker 4: calling on the front lines. It's almost impossible to stress
Speaker 4: how incredible she is. Before we recorded, she casually dropped
Speaker 4: into conversation that she also trained in knife fighting. Sometimes
Speaker 4: we met her at a shooting range near my sot
Speaker 4: and blasted a few paper targets together with a twelve
Speaker 4: gage shotgun we'd been using for a bit of target practice.
Speaker 4: When it jammed, and it always jammed, she cleared the
Speaker 4: chamber and got it back into action with a practiced
Speaker 4: efficiency that any formally trained soldier would have recognized. In
Speaker 4: the revolution, it didn't take long for her to find
Speaker 4: her way to the front lines, and she's got the
Speaker 4: scars to prove it, including some from hucking a tear
Speaker 4: gas grenade bare handed back at the cops. Others adopted
Speaker 4: roles too. Some picked up shields and took on the
Speaker 4: police toe to toe. Other supported protesters with medical aid
Speaker 4: and food and water.
Speaker 3: So you can see the shield two, three, four or five, yeah,
Speaker 3: to make it. And then you can see that they
Speaker 3: have these wet like plastic bags to like wash people's
Speaker 3: faces when they're two gas or like two killed the
Speaker 3: smokes with wet towels too, and then there's someone always
Speaker 3: water in it like you see here. Yeah, And this
Speaker 3: is all from the neighborhood like they provided to us.
Speaker 4: They built barricades and even developed a system of communications
Speaker 4: for when things were getting violent. This allowed folks who
Speaker 4: were not comfortable to get away, or at least that
Speaker 4: was the goal.
Speaker 3: So the white flag means like we have this place,
Speaker 3: like this is our but then the black flag means
Speaker 3: will fuck you up back, like if you've done so
Speaker 3: much that we're going to fuck you up. You know,
Speaker 3: I have a video of it when it changed from
Speaker 3: white to black.
Speaker 4: Their tactics improved over time. When one group got kettled,
Speaker 4: another group would pop up nearby and draw soldiers away.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so and then there was one time when
Speaker 3: one one part of the city was under attacked by
Speaker 3: the military. A lot of protesters were trapped in there,
Speaker 3: and so we decided to go out. So every other
Speaker 3: parts of the city came out at nighttime to protest,
Speaker 3: so that they soldiers have.
Speaker 4: To kind of Yeah, a mirror too, came face to
Speaker 4: face with state violence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she wants to take the ashen bag because they
Speaker 5: are all protesting peacefully and at the time she wants
Speaker 5: to have a super power.
Speaker 1: M M, yeah, maybe she does. Uh, what what did
Speaker 1: she what did she decide to do? What did they
Speaker 1: do at that time?
Speaker 5: And then she feels like she's going to the act
Speaker 5: and then she will keep moving and then she will
Speaker 5: participate in every role that she can, and then she
Speaker 5: would do as much as she can. That's that's what
Speaker 5: she decided to.
Speaker 1: We saw that.
Speaker 2: Picture of her in front of the car and it
Speaker 2: was Bernie, we're half in there. Were they throwing molotov cocktails?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, so like smoke bombs and then something like that,
Speaker 5: and then she's trying to throw them back the picture.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, so she picked it up and then
Speaker 5: she told them back.
Speaker 1: You hurt your hand, Yeah, you have a scar?
Speaker 3: Fuck?
Speaker 1: Oh wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: Then she got hit by the smoke bone like a twice.
Speaker 5: And then at that time she lost everything. She lost
Speaker 5: her pats, she lost her phones, and someone have her
Speaker 5: to hold and took her back.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's how she escaped.
Speaker 1: Wow, they helped you to know who helped you? Was
Speaker 1: it a friend or just a stranger?
Speaker 5: Her friensis with her and I when the tear guls
Speaker 5: hit down and then the other strangers had them and
Speaker 5: she got hit by the tear guls and then she
Speaker 5: almost faded and a black out.
Speaker 2: Our doctor who goes by Wonder faced a difficult choice
Speaker 2: returning to the hospital meant risking arrest. The military could
Speaker 2: come in at any time to arrest injured protesters and
Speaker 2: the doctors helping them, but not going back the letting
Speaker 2: his comrades die, state violence increased. He decided he needed
Speaker 2: to help.
Speaker 6: They killed so many graceful protesters on that day. I
Speaker 6: think roundabout nearly round one hundred or more might be
Speaker 6: more than that we see, yes on that day, you know,
Speaker 6: or because we have already we have already started say
Speaker 6: the discoveredient movement on that on that time, because we
Speaker 6: didn't go the hospital there that was ruined by that
Speaker 6: genres Okay, okay, so we dere outside the hospital, you know.
Speaker 6: We we managed temporary camp like that because for emergency
Speaker 6: injury patients at that time I was involved one of
Speaker 6: the campsite. Yeah, because but actually we can't deal yea
Speaker 6: some of the injury pe that may need for emergency
Speaker 6: operation like that bullet go through, Yeah, go to break
Speaker 6: the bones and open moon. So but we have to
Speaker 6: take the ricks because we have to operate that patient.
Speaker 6: We go to hospital trauma emergency department. We did our operation.
Speaker 6: I remember at that night, one of the pasions was
Speaker 6: shot down by police and they chased, they followed that patient.
Speaker 6: We kept that pasion in our hospital in our war
Speaker 6: We emergency, we did emergency operation on that at that night,
Speaker 6: on that night, and we emergently moved him out on
Speaker 6: that night because we can't keep him on that hospital
Speaker 6: because uh, soon he just left our hospital. The police
Speaker 6: just came and such for him. But this is one
Speaker 6: of our streams. It was, uh, they just quite there again,
Speaker 6: where is that guy?
Speaker 2: TK got on telegram? Lots of people couldn't be on
Speaker 2: the ground fighting, but they still wanted to be part
Speaker 2: of the struggle. He developed good connections with people on
Speaker 2: the ground, but first that was just him desperately try
Speaker 2: and stay informed. But soon he realized he was well
Speaker 2: placed to be doing the informing. With internet access cutoff
Speaker 2: VPNs flowing down, only someone outside the country with blazing
Speaker 2: fast Bay Area WiFi could collate all the info coming in.
Speaker 2: I turn it into useful, actionable advice for protesters on
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 5: At that time, we know nothing about it. No one's
Speaker 5: no one's teaching us what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have to do it, do it, you know,
Speaker 1: like we we we met.
Speaker 5: We like I said, we have a seventy people. So
Speaker 5: we have a meeting every day, every night, so we
Speaker 5: try to you know, brainstorming what we're gonna do. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then so we made we make in the plants
Speaker 5: and now we make in like, Okay, we're gonna get
Speaker 5: the informations from you know, every single details that we
Speaker 5: can get, and that that's we're gonna share to the people.
Speaker 5: That's what we're gonna share to the unaground team, send
Speaker 5: other people.
Speaker 2: Within a few weeks, it had become clear that a
Speaker 2: diverse range of people, tactics, and tools are going to
Speaker 2: be needed in the fight for.
Speaker 1: Freedom in Meanma.
Speaker 2: Next time we'll talk about how that fight took shape
Speaker 2: and tell you what it's like today.
Speaker 1: Hi everyone, it's James here.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to note that lots of the words
Speaker 2: in the script are Burmese or Karen or Thai, and
Speaker 2: we've made every effort to make sure that we pronounce
Speaker 2: them correctly. But we sure we've obviously made some mistakes
Speaker 2: along the way. That's not out of a lack of
Speaker 2: respect or out of a lack of rerecording on my part,
Speaker 2: but we did want to note that where we've made
Speaker 2: a mistake, we're very sorry for doing so.
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