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Aung San Suu Kyi

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Aung San Suu Kyi is back in prison after briefly presiding over a democratically elected government in Myanmar. She is once again one of many political prisoners facing indefinite detention, torture and death at the hands of Min Aung Hlaing's military dictatorship. Since the the coup in February 2021, over 2,300 people have been killed, over 16,000 arrested, and over 1 million displaced.

The Myanmar people are fighting back though. The Civil Disobedience Movement has pushed the economy to the breaking point. Armed militia groups known as People's Defence Forces have teamed up with ethnic armed organizations who have been fighting the Myanmar military for years. These groups protect civilians from junta soldiers and attack military facilities and officials. There is now a parallel Myanmar government run by the resistance, called the National Unity Government.

This situation remains dire. Myanmar is now effectively in a civil war. Its citizens live in constant fear. The junta burns villages, bombs and terrorizes civilians. Myanmar's health care system is in collapse after national strikes and Covid-19. Schools are empty as students reject a junta-backed education. Businesses can’t operate, and people are starving.

This track was originally produced in 2009, the last time Aung San Suu Kyi was a political prisoner. It has received some upgrades and was remixed for the new era of Myanmar's freedom struggle.

If you’d like to help the Myanmar people, here are a few organizations you can easily support:

NUG Ministry of Health - moh.nugmyanmar.org/donate/
Frontier Myanmar - www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/membership/
International Campaign for the Rohingya - actionnetwork.org/fundraising/emergency-challenge-fund-for-a-new-myanmar

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released December 6, 2021
music by AK Rockefeller

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