Despite the Myanmar junta having announced a ceasefire following last week's earthquake, activists on the ground say that fighting still continues in parts of the country. Meanwhile, military leader Min Aung Hliang's visit to Bangkok for the BIMSTEC conference has also been met with protest. To learn more, TaiwanPlus spoke to Zarni Soe from the Arakan Youth Peace Network.
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00:00What is the situation on the ground right now in Myanmar as people are reeling from the earthquake?
00:05For us, Khoi in Myanmar, since the Hunsar dictator took the country power,
00:11the country has been in turmoil, facing with increasing instability.
00:15Right now, very unfortunate, the big 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit epicenter, Mandalay.
00:24The death toll continues to rise, while many remain trapped under the collapsed infrastructure.
00:34But the Hunsar never stopped bombing, aerial bombardment against civilians,
00:40particularly in Sakhain and other rural sites.
00:43Amid previous reports of Hunsar bombing, how has the recovery effort been?
00:48The Hunsar also blocked the entering international journalist media, and they provided humanitarian aid.
00:56We have been receiving data reports that there is no emergency team that the Hunsar provided to the affected areas,
01:04like in Sakhain, Mandalay, and other most affected areas.
01:08Right now, a lot of civil society organizations from different backgrounds,
01:16they are trying to provide the most effective people, but actually it's not enough.
01:21What can we expect moving forward now that the Hunsar has announced the ceasefire?
01:26In the history of Myanmar, the Hunsar declared the ceasefire to consolidate their power,
01:34not to solve the root cause of the problem.
01:39We expect nothing, because the Hunsar is now going to attend business.
01:45He's using it as a pretext to move his power to attend the business in Thailand.
01:53But the Thai government also should, instead of providing a seat to the Hunsar,
02:03the Thai government also should raise, like, providing the emergency humanitarian team,
02:09so more effectively to the conflict.