‘My awakening moment’: Myanmar soldier joins anti-coup movement
20 March 2021 |
7:17 am
The violence in Yangon's North Okkalapa township in early March became the catalyst for 30-year-old Shing Ling to defect from the army and join a nationwide civil disobedience movement.
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