WEBVTT - How To Build A Revolution: Myanmar, Part Two 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.000 Like many people in Myanmar, the boys weren't usually. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.799 Political before the protests, but what they saw in the 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.520 streets change them. This wasn't about a minor disagreement between 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.200 two parties. It was about fighting for the right to 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.240 live their life without a boot on their necks. The 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.840 twenty twenty one election had delivered victory to Angsan Suchi's 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.280 National League for Democracy and delivered a resounding vote of 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.720 no confidence in the political arm of the toppler door, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.879 the nation's military. It's worth noting here that, yes, we 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.559 are compressing some complex things. The elections weren't perfect, and 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.559 people in areas that were largely non bermin tend not 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.840 to support the NLD. The NLD had failed to prevent 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.680 a genocide, but in the country that was well accustomed 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.400 to harsh military rule, there remained a better option than 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.560 a military which saw ruling as its right and it 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.319 sold just a separate from the citizens. So when the 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.480 military lost a record number of seats, everyone knew what 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.360 would happen next, The same thing that happened in nineteen 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.760 eighty eight, the same thing that always happened when the 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.200 people came a little too close to taking power from 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:15.800 their military. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:21.960 So that happened on February first, twenty one, and first 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.160 few days we didn't know what to do. We I mean, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.240 we knew the military was going to make it coop 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:32.560 because one the NLD won the election. That's why, that's 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.720 how it started, right and then, and the military is 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.160 saying that they you know, they cheated, they like, I 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.440 don't know how to say, they like fucked up the 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.440 votes and you know they make themselves win. It wasn't true. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.080 I mean, the military was not going to win at all. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.760 Like it was because, like I said, there were changes. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.320 You know, people saw those changes, and people were saying, yes, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.240 if she had one more you know, like four more years, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.560 five more years, she could make a real difference. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.600 Those first few days of protest, everyone says felt hopeful, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.920 just like our protagonists and Zor who he met in 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.919 the previous episode, thousands of young people ran into the 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.280 street and found solidarity in a simple politics. The fuck 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:13.800 that guy. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.280 There were so many people, man, it's insane. So in 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.520 Yawadi there was I think two hundred thousand people that day. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.720 The march's got bigger every day and it seemed like 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:29.120 nothing could stop them. Briefly, Western news organizations published stories, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.160 and everyone hoped that the UN or the US or 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.359 the EU would show up and the Top Modo would 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.639 be dealt with once and for all. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.960 Yeah, I was trying to film, but then one of 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.720 the guys pointed a gun at me, and I. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.640 Was like, but none of that happened. The story stopped. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.360 The West never sent a single bullet or soldier, and 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.359 the Top Meda deployed thousands. Even after a year. All 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.880 the boys remember the first time they saw the force 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.760 of the state turned against them. Even before he got 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.560 out out of the border town of Malwadi, Andy saw 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.160 the Top Madow begin to fight back against the movement 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.840 that had grown up to oppose them. It's a story 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.120 we heard from everyone we spoke to. Once they began organizing, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.720 the cops started trying to infiltrate their groups. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.880 I think police and military started realizing that we are 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.120 that group too, So then they started trying to like 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.359 track down. So there was one night where two of 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.400 the guys almost got rested and then they run away 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.160 and then we're like, okay, they are kind of following us. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.120 and so after a week, same thing happened. I was 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.160 living because I wasn't from Yawadi. They didn't know. I 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.320 was just a new face, so they didn't really know 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.400 where I live or you know, and I always like 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.320 take like two three taxi just to get to where 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.880 I was staying. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but you like switching. No, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.800 that was the same place, but it was out of town. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.240 Three of his friends got arrested. They're still in jail. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.840 Actually in jail is the best case scenario because the 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.920 top ma doal make a habit of executing captured activists. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.720 The stakes were life and death at every moment, and 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.200 covering the movement on a daily basis took its toll 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.080 on Andy and his brothers too. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.040 So my younger brother. They were in the capital CD 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.280 and that the first time the military killed someone, they 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.200 were there. They were in the same protest, so they 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.800 saw the whole thing, and you know, they were traumatized. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.120 And so I thought the second time I went back in, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.440 I thought, well, you know, like it's better to bring 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.840 them all together with me, like in the same place 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.200 and we do it together than all of us spread 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.360 out everywhere, you know. And like I say, my family's 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.239 military kind of on the military side. So they didn't 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.640 like that my brothers were going out to protest. So 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.960 then I was like, Okay, I'm going to bring you guys, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.640 and yeah, so we did all we did the young 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.280 On protests together, six of us. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.359 They came face to face with the potential cost of 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.480 their struggle and they were in. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.119 When that happened. The couple memoir. And it's military city, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.479 so it's very heavily controlled by the military. And the 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.599 first time they went out to protest, the military shoot people. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.960 And he was, yeah, there was like these trucks with 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.599 the water pennants. So he got hit by one and 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.000 like he he wasn't viewing well, so they took him 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.920 to the ambulance. But then once he got in there, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.279 there was a guy without his eyes because they shot 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.719 like bullets into him. He was fucking traumatized for that. Yeah. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.200 I remember when Andy says Napier Daw is a military city, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.960 he isn't just saying it's a city like Colleen, Texas 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.320 or San Diego. Napio Daw is a city created out 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.440 of nothing starting in two thousand and two to be 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.280 a capital for Meanmar. If you've seen it at all, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.360 it's probably in a TV show that mocks the totalitarian 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.159 excess of building seven lane motorways in a city that 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.240 was until recently only populated by the people building it. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.560 Top Gear played carfoot ball on the empty freeways, and 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.239 the TV showed dark Tourists also featured the city today. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.279 It is a real city with a real population, but 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.200 everything about it was designed to reinforce authority. And yet 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.560 the boys and thousands of others took to the streets 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.479 here streets built to reinforce the power of the people. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.960 They were fighting to demand that the military listened to them. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.080 Andy shows us a picture of the man with his 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.720 eyes shot out. It looks how you think it would, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.400 and it is worth noting that shooting people's eyes out 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.040 is a time honored international policing tactic. In twenty twenty, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.640 US cop shot more than one hundred and fifteen people 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.080 in the face with less legal munitions. Thirty suffered permanent 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.159 damage to their eyes. But in Myanmar everything escalated several 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.560 levels higher than that. Shooting out eyes wasn't radical violence 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.679 for the Tautmadaw. They treated it more like stretching before 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.880 a run. In one protest, the boys saw some drunk 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.440 people tossing water bottles at the police. The police responded 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.240 with live gun fire on the polishkan fall. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.120 Peoples are turned to the backside. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:10.880 And they retreat. Yeah, very situation. Peoples are running. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:17.280 They also some guys during rocks back to the police. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.600 Yeah, that's when the police started shooting. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:26.000 And he translated the next part for us. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.280 He so he was in the protest and then they 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:35.760 started shooting and he ran away. And but he was 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.200 not in his neighborhood, in his area of the city. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.800 He was somewhere else. So when they started running, he 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.440 didn't have anywhere to go. And then someone like accept 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.360 him at the house. They say coming, come in, and 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:59.800 he hid. But yeah, so yeah, he hit in the 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.080 for like two hours until they shooting stopped. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.360 It wasn't until they got home that they realized the 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.080 police had killed someone. In the early days of what 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.640 became the Revolution, people formed tight bonds and made radical 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.640 commitments in the form of legal activity. While the top 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.920 model was still scrambling to counter the counter coup, everyone 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.880 felt the clamp down bite at a different time. It 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.720 took longer than average for the cops to find a 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.040 mirror and her card of revolutionaries, but eventually that day came. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.720 It came as she and her friends were gathered in 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.240 a tea shop preparing for an action. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.120 At that time on that day, they are trying to 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:43.760 protects in the Sanjan profniance. Yea, so before the protests 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:48.280 that they cattering the people at the tea shop. Yeah, 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:54.680 they sat in the table with her teams about including 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:59.000 her five people, but she had to go and give 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:04.480 the banner yeah to the other groups. So she's leaving 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:10.920 just about like this match. And then then the soldiers 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:16.440 came into the tea shop and then arrested her teammates. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:21.880 She's lucky to escape, yeah, yeah, really narrow you know. Yeah. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.040 Yeah, So did she leave immediately? 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:32.240 Yeah, So that's how she came here because her teammates 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:37.400 know where she lives, her house and everything, so she 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.760 has no choice to stay in a youngle But then 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:46.199 she stay organizing her teams to the protests and the 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.000 younger from here? From here? 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.480 What did her parents think when she had to leave? 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.640 Right? 0:09:54.760 --> 0:10:00.360 So her parents told her, uh, the survival, it is 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.720 the first so she can't do whatever she wants and 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.200 then but she have to be on her own, okay, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.640 well yeah, and then they don't they agree, you know, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.640 like if if she wants to leave, just leave. If 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.880 she s they want to do the you know, protesting 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:27.120 or whatever she wants, and they're not saying no to her. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.240 But they're not supporting it. They're just sort of thing. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.079 She's on her own. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.640 Yeah, she's on her own. That that's how last night 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.480 I told you guys that she lost her inheritance, like 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.200 you know, she had to give up on everything. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.440 Well, ever, in San Francisco, t K could see what 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.840 was happening through his scouts on the ground and soldiers 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.240 posts on Facebook. He started to amass a huge amount 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.120 of intel. He also knew where the underground groups and 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.600 what obedience movement centers were in the cities, and when 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.520 he saw the cops of the military coming for them, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.040 he was able to give them a heads up. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.960 So whenever we we have like uh, you know, uh 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:14.160 information about from the you know, some CDM soldiers, some 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.760 city and police, and then they give him the informations 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.200 a hat so we got the informations, so like, okay, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.679 those guys are going to the you know, let's say, okay, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:31.000 this place and then within one hour there so from 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:36.480 that place, whoever live in the underground teams move out yeah, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.600 get yeah, so so so that kind of things. Uh 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.760 with with that, we save a lot of people too, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.040 And then we got arrested people too, But we also 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.040 saved people. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.400 Everyone we spoke to you told us the same story. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.719 They went into the street thinking that if they made 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.480 enough noise, the world would listen, and that the US 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.480 or the EU or the UN would defend democracy and 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.920 evoke their responsibility to protect innocent people being gunned down 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.240 in the street, to quote from the online publication of 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.480 the Diplomat endorsed by all Member States of the United 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.440 Nations in two thousand and five. R two P Advance 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.079 is a potentially revolutionary idea that state sovereignty entails a 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.160 responsibility for a government to protect its population from massa 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:31.080 trusty crimes and human rights violations. When a nation fails 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.720 to exercise this responsibility, R two P grants the international 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.520 community the legal warrant to intervene. The doctrine authorizes the 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.400 use for a range of coercive tools, which military intervention 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.800 as a last resort. People in Myanmar thought that if 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.959 they were peaceful, civil and respectable, the government of the 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.480 world would do the right thing. The government of the world, however, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:52.760 didn't give a fuck. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.120 But yeah, so the protests are very very peaceful. You know. 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.880 It's when you go into the protest, it's very peaceful, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:04.640 very organized, very it's they try to make it look 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.560 so clean, so nice, because I guess you know, no, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.199 it was at the beginning they were trying to get 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.720 attention from the international community, and they were hoping that 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.360 someone will come in and say, you know, take down 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.880 the military and put our government back. Yeah, a lot 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.440 of people die, just like there was a saying like 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.800 to you, and you know, people were saying how many like, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.600 how many dead people do you need for you to 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.680 take action? Right? And there are people saying I will 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.680 if you need one more, I'll be that person. I'll 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.560 just fucking die. I'll just get killed by the military 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.320 so that you will come in and fix it and 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.840 change this situation in the country. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:42.120 Right. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.400 Amiror felt the same. She even organized a protest five 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.440 hundred people displaying a map of the whole country on 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.040 the river in Yangon. She called it a suicide mission, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.319 but she thought it would send a visible signal to 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.760 the world and it was worth risking her life to 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:58.480 make the statement. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:01.800 I realized. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:08.040 At the time. She she she didn't know anything about 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.680 the politics, so she believed in our two p because uh, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.720 people are protesting peacefully, but the government take the ash 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.640 in so other countries not gonna wait and un see 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.880 and then they're gonna take the actions about that. That's 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.360 what she believed in. And then she she decided to 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.360 go protesting peacefully theater and. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.920 Okay, did she think that other countries, United States, whatever, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.280 we're gonna come in and intervene. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.000 Yeah, yeah, that that that's what she thought, Like you know, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.800 when the wall see the government take the ashans and 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.520 the government are killing people, and if they if the 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.480 war knows, and then we can get a hab from 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:53.760 the from the other countries. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.480 Where they did find support within other countries in Asia 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.560 fighting against dictatorship, they formed so called milk Tea. Aligns 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.120 drew on the example of Hong Kong to learn how 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.080 to stay in the streets where the government doesn't want 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:06.480 you there. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.760 But then one happens in our country, it's like, oh fuck, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.360 where does it happen before? And then we went back 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.000 straight with Hong Kong and there was it's not just us, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.600 like there was so much infographics and like you know, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.920 how to be in the protest, how to do certain things. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.760 It depending on the situation. So we had a lot 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.800 of information. We were yeah, we were looking through and 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.560 I think that these are the same thing that like 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.479 people in Hong Kong used, I think. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.440 But Hong Kong didn't have snipers shooting kids in the 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.880 head or cops furrowing rifles blindly into crowds. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.160 But then later on, like by the time we got 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.680 to young and people were sitting down, they were little protests. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.800 What the military does is they were coming and they 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:49.040 would just start shooting everyone. There was no there's no negotiation, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.400 there was no hey, guys, can you move? And then 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.080 you know, any any of that stuff. They would coming 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.400 and they they would treat this as a battlefield. And 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.760 it didn't take a while. It didn't well, it did 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.080 take a while. I think it took about like a 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.800 month and a half for us to finally say, fuck 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.600 the peaceful protests, Fuck the international community, they're not coming. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.640 If they were to come, they would have come a 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.240 long time ago, you know. And we started fighting back. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.160 But when we say we fight back, it's like molotolf cocktails, slingshots. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.080 Doctor Wonder knew exactly when and how place he would 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.240 spend his days triarging people who would survive from those 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.320 who might not make it. Soon, the worst nightmares of 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.040 his medical team are coming true. The police began seizing 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.200 his colleagues the alleged crime of saving lives. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:51.520 I remember before the Meli police amilyfi man and totally 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.600 totally impluded our hospital one day. I think at the 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.960 midda of their may Okay, they totally interluded our horse 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.960 there because they have far, they have hearts. Our city 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.159 and doctors are doing operations at that hospital because we 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.320 have no no, no another place like that traumassetter. We 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.560 we could give uh good treatment for that traumatic patient 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.639 because we have to. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:21.200 Take a risk. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.400 So we're gonna take a rest soon. One of our 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:31.399 concenters was arrested at that emergency unit. Wow, okay, because 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.920 he took he took also his rais. But if he 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.000 wasn't here, his junior can can't handle that situation. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:40.359 You know. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:45.399 You know, so many tense handress injury injury patients on 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.840 that day mostly are can short patient. You know, Samma 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:55.520 open a doomen open limes. Okay, so we have so 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.120 many prices. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.200 On that Now things only got worse m yeah. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.080 Yeah. There was a pregnant woman who got shot and 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.639 obviously with the kids better and she died because she 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.680 accepted like twenty protesters in her house and when they came, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:17.520 they shot her death. And she wasn't like five weeks 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.560 or it's it's you can see that she was pregnant. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.280 The military, you straight up real bullets, like they don't 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.159 give a shit, They don't give a shit that the 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.600 way the military controlled people is fear right, So then 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:37.399 they want people to see that if you go against me, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:42.159 you'll die horribly, and they shoot hat. We saw so 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.359 many faces with holes, you know, so many people with 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.840 holes in their face. It was fucked up, and it 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.840 was scary because every time you go out, you're saying, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.000 that could be me, that could be my brothers, that 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:53.840 could be you know. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.320 Very quickly the revolution organized itself, not with hierarchies, officers, 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.040 or vanguard parties. The people who'd existed in those roles 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.440 had already been arrested or fled, so instead the revolution 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.040 started with people giving whatever they could to the struggle 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.680 and taking whatever they needed to get by the revolutionaries 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.159 we interviewed all initially thought that the struggle would be 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.879 sure that the world would come to their aid. But 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.880 even when it became clear that this was not the case, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.840 they continued to fight under the logic it's better to 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.640 die than live with a boote on your neck. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.639 They took all the leaders from the opposition side, so 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.359 there was no one to tell us what to do. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.080 There was no instructions, right, so there was like two 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.399 days of Okay, what the fuck do we do? You know? 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:41.000 And then people started protesting, but small, like very small, 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.919 and then I think after like five days then there 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.119 was like two hundred thousand people everywhere. Like no that 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.119 I remember the first day we arrived. I mean, we 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.520 haven't seen each other but since COVID started, so it 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.000 was like, ah, well there, you know, back again and together. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.439 And then yeah, it was fun for like one night 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.840 and then we're all hanging out and trying to plan 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.840 what we're going to do the next day. So basically 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.159 we kind of planned that, like each of us have 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.480 a role, and our plan was to go out and 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.840 kind of be like a media crew. Right, so we're filming, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.240 we're writing news, we're posting on the internet so that 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.080 everywhere else people can see it. So yeah, two of 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.960 us are like the camera people, and then this too. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.639 They look out for the roads and streets, like because 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.600 these places. We've never been right Dane in these areas, 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.160 So whenever we go to a protest, we'll sit down 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.600 or we'll walk around and take photos while these twos 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.080 goes around and look for the fastest escapes, you know, 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.160 if the military come in, what will be the best 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.880 way to go, you know, you know, escape. And then 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.719 him and another one they kind of look after us. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.959 They look at the news to see what's happening around us, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.840 so that if there's a posts on Facebook saying oh 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.000 or some military truck heading towards you, we kind of 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:09.200 be prepared, you know. But yeah, I was. Yeah, So 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.359 we had a lot of energy at that time. It 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:17.240 was like a contant. We were going out and you 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:21.040 can see like always following me, Like that's me and him, 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:23.600 and he's always following me everywhere I go, so that 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.000 if something happening and he's grabbed me. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.480 While the boys and Andy were reporting, Amira found her 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.600 calling on the front lines. It's almost impossible to stress 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.280 how incredible she is. Before we recorded, she casually dropped 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.400 into conversation that she also trained in knife fighting. Sometimes 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.120 we met her at a shooting range near my sot 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.760 and blasted a few paper targets together with a twelve 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.480 gage shotgun we'd been using for a bit of target practice. 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.600 When it jammed, and it always jammed, she cleared the 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:51.920 chamber and got it back into action with a practiced 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:55.800 efficiency that any formally trained soldier would have recognized. In 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.360 the revolution, it didn't take long for her to find 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.560 her way to the front lines, and she's got the 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.120 scars to prove it, including some from hucking a tear 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.920 gas grenade bare handed back at the cops. Others adopted 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.399 roles too. Some picked up shields and took on the 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.120 police toe to toe. Other supported protesters with medical aid 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:14.120 and food and water. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:19.440 So you can see the shield two, three, four or five, yeah, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:21.720 to make it. And then you can see that they 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.800 have these wet like plastic bags to like wash people's 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:32.119 faces when they're two gas or like two killed the 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:36.040 smokes with wet towels too, and then there's someone always 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.840 water in it like you see here. Yeah, And this 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.080 is all from the neighborhood like they provided to us. 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.040 They built barricades and even developed a system of communications 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.520 for when things were getting violent. This allowed folks who 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.040 were not comfortable to get away, or at least that 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:52.640 was the goal. 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:58.840 So the white flag means like we have this place, 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.880 like this is our but then the black flag means 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.440 will fuck you up back, like if you've done so 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:06.399