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Laure Siegel

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Portfolio 8 mars 2021

Laure Siegel (avatar)

Laure Siegel

Journaliste

Pigiste Mediapart

The Myanmar Project: Streets of protest (8)

Since the military coup on Feb 1st, hundreds of thousands of people have taken the streets to express their anger at the electoral steal and their wish of a federal democracy governed by civilians. These pictures are the fieldwork of recent graduates in journalism who are now covering the protests from all around the country. In the 8th series, Nagpali (Rakhine), Yangon, Pyay & Monywa.

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Laure Siegel

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    25/02 - A group of protesters enter Ngapali (Rakhine state). Demonstrations in Thandwe have been called off until Feb 25th as a civilian attempt of negociation as a way to obtain the release of four students protesters from the police station who have been arrested on Feb 12th. On Feb 25th, police blocked the streets to avoid a gathering in Thandwe and only a small protest in Ngapali happened in South Rakhine on this day. 

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    25/02 - Anti-coup students protesters on Ngapali Beach 

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    25/02 - Anti-coup students protesters on Ngapali Beach ask : "How many more bodies for the UN to take action ?"

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    25/02 - Anti-coup students protesters in Ngapali

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    25/02 - Ngapali (Rakhine State)

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon // A candle vigil to honour the young anti-coup protesters who have been killed by the authorities across the country since mid-February in Myanmar.

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon, the Myanmar Logistics Community takes part in the daily protest. 

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon - A performance staged to denounce the pressures by the junta on civil servants to force them to go to work at gun point and not take part in the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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    23/02 - Police presence in downtown Yangon

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    23/02 - Police presence among the protesters in downtown Yangon

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon

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    23/02 - Downtown Yangon

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    28/02 - Pyay, Bago Region. Police prepared a charge for the first day where violence was recorded in this town. A dozen of civilians, protesters and journalists were injured by rubber bullets this day. 

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    28/02 - Pyay, Bago Region. Police prepared a charge for the first day where violence was recorded in this town. A dozen of civilians, protesters and journalists were injured by rubber bullets this day. 

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    18/02 - People gather for a day of peaceful protest in Monywa, Upper Burma. 

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    24/02 - The drums used by the revolutionary student orchestra of Monywa, Upper Burma to encourage people during the protests. 

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    04/03 - The memorial of a victim of the police repression the day before which left nine people dead in Monywa, Upper Burma, including the poet and activist K Za Win. Rohingya activist Yasmin Ullah posted one of his poem, translated by Ko Ko Thett, written to his father from jail. He was arrested and served three months in prison in 2015 for having taken part in a protest march for education reform : 

    "your son was  set up  for demanding the so-called police  not to harm ordinary citizens.  Someday  your son, who is not a thief nor a thug  will become employable, good as your dah that clears weed.  For now, Father,  keep gazing at the plantation  you’d ploughed with your naked shoulders.  Keep singing  the anthem of  The Peasant Union." 


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    04/03 - The memorial of another victim of the police repression the day before which left nine people dead in Monywa, Upper Burma, including the poet and activist K Za Win. Here is an excerpt from his famous poem "My Reply to Ramond", written in jail in 2015 :

    "A thief is unarmed. A thug is  armed to the teeth. If thieves are ungovernable, if thugs are ungovernable,  what’s the point of government?"

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    04/03 - The shoes which have been abandoned and lost by people during the police charge on protesters, have been ordained by residents for people to find them and pick them up the day following the assault.