‘A comedy show’: Myanmar youth in exile slam military-run ‘sham’ election
Al Jazeera
Myanmar tattooist Ng La cares little for the national election organised by his country’s despised military leaders.
Mae Sot, Thailand – On the outskirts of this small Thai town on the border with Myanmar, a tattoo artist’s gun buzzes alongside a blaring punk music soundtrack.
“Punk means freedom,” says Ng La, his face and body covered heavily in tattoos.
“It’s more than just music or fashion – it’s a way of life,” he tells Al Jazeera while tattooing a fellow Myanmar national-in-exile at the back of his “punk bar” in Mae Sot, in Thailand.
To live free was one of the reasons Ng La fled his home in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.
But the 28-year-old now lives precariously as an undocumented Myanmar national in Thailand, though that is, he says, better than being captured by the military regime that he first resisted, fled from and then fought against.
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