CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE PROTESTS : MYANMAR CHARGES DOCTORS

  • 14/04/2021

Myanmar’s ruling junta has charged at least 19 medical doctors for participating in civil disobedience protests against the military’s February 1 coup. Doctors, nurses and medical students have marched and joined strikes to show their opposition to the military takeover that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government and put a halt to the progress Myanmar had made toward greater democratization after five decades of military rule.The doctors charged are accused of supporting and participating in the civil disobedience movement “with the aim of deteriorating the state administrative machinery,” The military government has already issued arrest warrants for 100 people active in the fields of literature, film, theater arts, music and journalism on charges of spreading information that undermines the stability of the country and the rule of law.

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