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How Myanmar’s popular uprising aims to topple military rulers

How Myanmar’s popular uprising aims to topple military rulers

Al Jazeera
Saturday, February 13, 2021 07:09:41 AM UTC

Amid crackdown, protesters aim is to take away coup leaders’ power by stopping all governance mechanisms from working.

Starve the government of legitimacy and recognition; stop it from functioning by staging strikes; and cut off its sources of funding. That is the strategy emerging from a mass movement in Myanmar aimed at toppling the new military dictatorship. As protesters defying the February 1 coup brave beatings, arrests, water cannon, and even live ammunition, activists hope a “no recognition, no participation” approach can sustain pressure even if demonstrations are stamped out with violence. “The immediate aim is to take away the military’s power by stopping all of its governance mechanisms from working,” said Thinzar Shunlei Yi, who like many activists is now in hiding to avoid arrest.
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