Myanmar Spring Chronicle – November 06 Scenes
MoeMaKa, November 07 2022
Lives are difficult to see positive in a dark era
My friends both on social media and on the outside world often post about giving up on their lives. Incidents of those who gave up their lives and jumped off the bridge into the creek or the river are now being seen more frequently. It can be concluded that the political and economic implications of our environment have a great impact on the lives of individuals. Many people are experiencing unprecedented mental exhaustion, hopelessness, and a feeling of not being able to feel positive about the future.
As for those who are struggling to earn a living day by day, although they can’t think far ahead about the future of their lives and the country, they are trying hard to get out of the mire of high commodity prices in order to feed their families every day.
If you were to ask where these troubles, hardships and crises originated from, it would have to be the military coup on February 1st of last year.
The military coup has caused the breakdown of Myanmar’s economic and political reconstruction and peace efforts. The crackdown on protests that emerged after the military coup has pushed people to political extremes, and choosing the path of defeating them by means of armed force has become a popular political path.
The idea of resolving political differences through politics is no longer popular, and those who hold such an idea are assumed to be people without solid standing expecting benefits. It has come to the time to get the resolution by forces gradually aiming towards the final demolishment. It is a situation where hope for the better is gradually destroyed when people are surviving in an era where the balance of stability, law and order is gone and people’s lives are killed, houses are burned down, and women are killed in order to gain political power.
Many people nowadays are beginning to think that they do not know when they will lose their lives and they may be confronted with death unexpectedly. I myself could be killed by a bullet or a mine explosion while traveling or going out to do my daily activities. Or I might be shot and killed by a bullet while walking out on the street. Those who are not associated with politics are living in a situation where there is a risk of losing their lives at any moment and are moving around with the emotional thought that they could lose their lives at any moment, so thoughts of how to improve their lives and try to build it up are blown away.
As for parents, I have noticed that their thoughts about the possibility of being with their children until the end of their lives appear to be concerning.
If there is a feeling like this all over the country, there may be some ordinary people who see this situation as an money making opportunity and are using it. This is the minority, and the majority’s lives are filled with trauma, frustration, loss of hope, and those who no longer have the will to build a life and decide to just follow the flow. The situation where some people end up killing themselves when there is no way out of their trapped mental state is found in the environment.
While the lives of individuals are like this, the future of the country is the same. There are armed conflicts, liberation struggles, arson attacks and killing and looting by the military council troops who were ordered to crush the liberation struggle. On the one hand, there are also killings of military council supporters and their related people, the lowest-level personnel involved in the administration, the ward administrators, village administrators and 100-house heads. Under a situation where there is no law and crimes are becoming widespread in the cities and villages, one cannot help but think every day that one can die at any time.