Idle businesses, uncollected taxes. How Myanmar is tumbling toward a ‘failed state’
LA TimesArrested protesters flash the three-fingered salute Wednesday from a bus in Yangon, Myanmar. It was a scene repeated across Myanmar on Wednesday as anti-coup protesters called for a “silent strike” to increase pressure on the military government, which seized power last month and, since, has killed more than 420 civilians, including at least 114 Saturday in a spasm of violence that also left several children dead. “It’s better to die than live under a military regime,” said a foreign ministry official supportive of the civil disobedience movement who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his family. I may also have to go back home if the situation continues getting worse.” Soe Soe New said she’d had little time to reflect on the civil disobedience movement, which is known more commonly as CDM. “I don’t feel much of anything for the political movement because I have faced many difficult situations,” said Kyaw Nyant.
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