Six months after the coup in Burma: deaths, poverty and the explosion of Covid

BANGKOK – The revolution had long started when in May the peaceful teacher and renowned Burmese poet Myint Myint Zin published her latest verse: “Go down the streets like mad dogs”. It was one of the many emotional slogans that other poets paid with their lives to incite the young people of civil disobedience to challenge the bloody repression of the military who had already killed hundreds of opponents in the streets and homes since the coup on February 1.