TY, Baker. TY, Katniss. TY, muh District 5 peeps.
https://dunia.tempo.co/read/1429657/setelah-thailand-salam-tiga-jari-hunger-games-muncul-di-kudeta-myanmar/full&view=ok
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The anti-government movement in Thailand and the resistance to the Myanmar coup have one clear thing in common. The two of them both used three finger greetings to symbolize their form of resistance. The three finger greetings are not an original Thai or Myanmar creation, but are taken from a novel and film.
The novel and film in question is Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins originally created the three-finger greeting to symbolize three expressions: thank you, proud, and goodbye. Later, as the story progressed, the greeting became a symbol of resistance by the main character, Katniss Everdeen, to authoritarian rule.
Thailand has adopted this spirit since 2014. In Thailand, the three-finger greeting represents the three demands. The three are reforming the parliament, reforming the constitution, and ending intimidation of the people. In Myanmar, the meaning is not much different.
Health worker shows a Three Finger greeting for a photo in Yangon, Myanmar, February 3, 2021. This greeting is a symbol of support for Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's top civilian leader who was overthrown and opposed the leaders of a military coup. HNIN YI WIN / HO REUTERS
The three-finger greeting first appeared in Myanmar when the Civil Uprising Movement was formed on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. Doctors and medical staff, who were on strike and unwilling to serve the military government, waved the Hunger Games three-finger greeting while wearing masks and blue surgical gowns. .
The three-finger greeting was used by them to symbolize rejection of military rule and demands for the release of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. As reported, the two, along with several government party officials, have been detained by General Min Aung Hlaing since last Monday.
Quoted from Reuters, Myanmar's inspiration to use the same symbol as Thailand is more or less because of the closeness of the two. Both share the same borders. Myanmar migrant workers, on the other hand, also mostly work in Thailand. As a result, it is not surprising that the three finger greeting spreads rapidly, especially since it has been used since 2014.
The uprising by Myanmar citizens has not borne fruit so far. As of this writing, the Myanmar government responded by turning off access to social media, especially Facebook. Facebook, in Myanmar, is often seen as a synonym of the internet.
The Myanmar government, which has been taken over by the military, said Facebook was being used to spread fake news and misinformation. This, they said, had the potential to disrupt the stability and security of Myanmar. For some Burmese citizens, the blocking actually strengthened the image of the Myanmar coup.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-salute/first-thailand-now-myanmar-asia-protesters-borrow-from-hunger-games-idUSKBN2A32JE
(Reuters) - Wearing face masks and red ribbons on their blue protective gowns, the group of Yangon medics raised three-finger salutes in a gesture of support for Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and defiance towards the leaders of a military coup.
In the country’s second city Mandalay, the gesture was repeated by healthcare workers at a coronavirus treatment centre, some of whom held a banner that read: “We support civil disobedience movement.”
Two senior members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy posted pictures of themselves making the same gesture on social media following Monday’s takeover by the military.
The salute - three fingers pointing up with palm away from the body - stems from the popular “Hunger Games” movies, based on Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novels. But in recent years it has been adopted by protesters against authoritarian rule in Asia.
Popularised by Jennifer Lawrence’s character, Katniss Everdeen, in the “Hunger Games” the gesture became a symbol of the revolution and rebellion against totalitarian rule in fictional nation Panem.
It began appearing on the streets in 2014, when it was seized on by protesters in Thailand as a tactic to defy a ban on public gatherings imposed after a coup in May.
Later that year, young pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong also adopted the salute in their campaign for fully democratic elections.
The salute was widely seen again in Thailand - which shares a border with Myanmar and where many migrants from Myanmar work - last year, during months of protests calling for the removal of the government led by the 2014 coup leader and reforms to the monarchy.
Writing by Alex Richardson; Editing by Giles Elgood
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/burma-opens-shelter-human-trafficking-victims.html
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By NYEIN NYEIN 25 April 2014
Burmese officials have opened a new temporary shelter to support victims of human trafficking who were rescued or have escaped and are now preparing to return home.
The shelter, located in Kawt Thaung town, Tenasserim Division, opened on Thursday with support from the Japanese government. It will accept 25 men and 25 women who were trafficked from Burma into neighboring countries, especially Thailand. They will stay at the shelter for about two weeks before returning home.
“We aim to support the victims with temporary accommodation before they are reunited with their families,” Min Khaing, a police official on Burma’s Anti-Trafficking Task Force, told The Irrawaddy. “They will also be provided with health care, mental health care and counseling for trauma from staff of the social welfare department.”
The shelter is the first of its kind on the Thai-Burma border. The Japanese government supports a similar shelter in Muse, Shan State, which assists mostly Burmese women who were trafficked and forced to marry men in neighboring China.
Burmese and Thai government officials have long collaborated to rescue trafficking victims, particularly Burmese men who were forced to work as fishermen in Thailand and Burmese women who were forced to work in the sex industry there.
Both governments have anti-trafficking task forces, with the Thai group working in Ranong Township and the Burmese working in Kawt Thaung.
The Thailand-based Foundation for Education and Development and the Myanmar Association in Thailand (MAT), which also assist trafficking victims, say they will transfer their cases to the new shelter in Tenasserim Division and collaborate with government officials to ensure victims can return home through the official channel.
There are other shelters available in Thailand, but according to the Bangkok-based MAT, trafficking victims are often required to live in these for anywhere from six months to one year, much longer than many would prefer.
Htoo Chit, director of the Foundation for Education and Development, said he had spoken with the head of Burma’s Anti-Trafficking Task Force to ensure effective collaboration.
“We will transfer our cases to the government shelter. So far we have two women cases,” he said, adding that he had concerns about the resources available at the shelter in Tenasserim Division.
Kyaw Thaang, director of MAT, said he welcomed the new shelter, which he said would not pose problems of language and cultural barriers like the shelters in Thailand. However, he said he worried the shelter might not be able to offer enough social and psychological support.
“People who were trafficked are often already depressed. Even in Thailand, they face further forms of exploitation and social insecurity [at the shelters], where civil society groups have been effectively working in this field for decades,” he said. “I wonder how the Burmese will overcome these issues, given that many of the civil servants tend to treat the poor people badly.”
MAT has assisted 625 trafficking victims since 2012, but the number of new cases is rising, Kyaw Thaung said.
Aung Myo Min, a prominent human rights activist and director of the Rangoon-based Equality Myanmar, said it would be important for social workers at the Burmese shelter to understood the victims’ rights and treat them appropriately.
“They have already been traumatized by their harsh experience. The staff must support them with care and kindness, rather than treating them like criminals,” he said.
“The shelter’s disciplinary system must protect the victims’ dignity. It should not be about punishment,” he added.
Too late. Algos are writing the news and don't realize this is AGAINST slavery in Thailand/Burma.
I thought they were Myanmar protestors that were mad their government wouldn't accept the election?
Hopefully God will have strategically placed him at the Superb Owl, to get arrested on live TV!
An anon can hope :)