A teacher-turned-rebel joins a individuals’s combating drive to take again Myanmar from army rule.
Zike Maung by no means imagined buying and selling his classroom for the entrance traces of a rise up. However when Myanmar’s army seized energy from the democratically elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, his world – and his nation – was thrown into chaos.
Right this moment, Zike Maung is coaching to turn out to be a police officer within the Individuals’s Defence Drive (PDF) among the many Zo ethnic group in Chin State, close to Myanmar’s western border with India. The PDF is a community of resistance teams combating for democracy in opposition to army rule. “In instances of revolution, I need to be the place I may help. The one strategy to win our freedom is to battle for it,” he says, describing a rustic on the point of collapse, with tens of hundreds killed and tens of millions displaced.
For Zike Maung, the resistance is about extra than simply tactical victories – it’s about returning residence. “I put my belief on this revolution,” he says. The coaching, the self-discipline, and the shared goal all result in one factor: hope. Hope for a Myanmar that’s free, democratic, and ruled by its individuals – not by a army reign of concern.
Credit:
Director/Producer: Ivan Ogilvie
Extra Producer: Antonia Perello
Writers: Ivan Ogilvie, Antonia Perello
Editors: Ivan Ogilvie, Antonia Perello
Colourist: Catherine Hallinan
Sound Mixer: Linus Bergman
Senior Editor: Donald Cameron
