Thursday, 04 March
#Today was the mourning day of Myanmar protester, Ma Kyal Sin or Angel. She was a teenager who was shot dead by police on 3 March 2021 in Mandalay, Myanmar.
Rest in peace, Angel...
Kyal Sin, also known as Angel or by her Chinese name, Deng Jia Xi, was a 19-year-old girl from Mandalay who was killed on 3 March 2021 during the 2021 protests. She became an icon of the anti-coup protest movement after she was shot dead. Kyal Sin emerged as an early martyr and symbol of resistance against the military junta's use of violence to suppress a protest movement. She was one of several teenagers who gave up their lives in the protests.
Kyal Sin was a taekwondo instructor and champion, and had made a Facebook post prior to the event stating her blood type in case she was injured and her wish for her organs to be donated should she die during the protest.
During the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Kyal Sin began to express her support online for arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the ruling National League for Democracy.
On 3 March 2021, she participated in a protest in Mandalay wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with Everything will be OK. A photograph of her wearing the T-shirt has become iconic.
During the protest, she is reported to have broken open a water pipe to allow protestors to wash tear gas from their eyes, has thrown a tear gas canister back at police, and encouraged protestors to get in cover when live rounds were fired.
While she was on the front line of the protest she was shot dead by a military sniper. She has emerged as a martyr and a symbol of resistance against the military junta.
On 4 March 2021, her funeral was held in Mandalay and a major occasion attended by about 100,000 people and made a "three-finger salute" against authoritarianism. Many people also mourned her, calling her an "angel" and " hero". The next day, the soldiers went to her cemetery, threatened the cemetery staff with guns, and blocked the entrance, forcibly digging the grave and coffin for autopsy without the consent of the family members.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kyal_Sin)
#enoughfortoday #qmo
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