[사회]”Help me to protect my family”… Myanmar protests solidarity movement in Korea

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Myanmar residents in Korea are continuing desperate protests everywhere, appealing for interest to the Koreans who suffered from the Gwangju Uprising.

The voices of condemning the military government in Myanmar and supporting the protesters are growing in the country as well.

Reporter Jung Hyun-woo’s report.

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In front of the Myanmar Embassy in Hannam-dong, Seoul.

Parliamentarians at an interview with the Myanmar people raise their three fingers over their shoulders.

This gesture is meant to condemn the Myanmar military for causing the coup.

“Spring in Myanmar! Long live democracy in Myanmar!

No more innocent deaths, raising their voices to stop cracking down on protesters and follow the will of the Myanmarians for democracy.

[민형배 / 더불어민주당 국회의원] : The bigger problem is that Myanmar citizens, like Gwangju in May 1980, are now isolated. It’s a terribly lonely fight. Help is very desperate.]

Myanmarians asked the embassy several times to meet, but the only thing that came back was rejection.

The reality is that the embassy silently responds to the demand to acknowledge the democratic government.

[정범래 / 미얀마 민주주의네트워크 공동대표 : 해외에 있는 미얀마인들의 이익을 보호해주는 미얀마 대사와 대사관 직원들은 민주적으로 선출된 연방의회 대표위원회를 따르고 헌법을 존중해야 한다.]

The only thing Myanmarians outside of the country can do is inform the atrocities of the military and ask for solidarity from the international community.

To this end, a rally is held in front of the military officers of Myanmar, representing the military, and one-man protests are continuing.

[소모뚜 / 미얀마민주주의 네트워크 공동대표 : 한국에 와있는 미얀마인들이 자발적으로, 집단으로 자신이 사는 곳곳에서 군사독재에 반대하는 활동을 하고 있습니다.]

There are also people who quit working factories and come up to Seoul to work in Myanmar democratic organizations.

I am afraid that my family in my hometown will be harmed for protesting abroad, but I cannot stay still.

[아웅 / 국내 거주 미얀마인 : 전 세계에 있는 미얀마 사람들이 함께 한다는 걸 보여주고 싶어요. 우리의 미래, 아들딸의 미래를 위해 지금 싸우고 있습니다.]

International students from Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, where gunfire never stops, burns their hearts whenever they lose contact with their families.

I appeal to the need for more interest from Koreans who have followed a similar history.

[네이우이히 / 국내 거주 미얀마인 : 한국 정부가 민주정부를 인정한다면 미얀마 국민에게 큰 힘이 돼 군사정부도 물러나게 되지 않을까….]

Myanmar residents plan to continue protests by demanding that the Korean government and the National Assembly recognize the CRPH, a representative committee of the federal parliament elected through the general election, not as a military branch.

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