Myanmar Youth make their voices heard…

YANGON: Myanmar’s youth,no stranger to the  country”s long struggle for  for democracy ,are increasingly daring to emerge from the political shadows as the regime promises a new era of openness.

Their enthusiasm offers much-needed new blood for Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party,whose top ranks are filled with elderly men in their 80s and 90s known as the “uncles”.

With the opposition gearing up for April 1 by -elections expected to propel Suu Kyi and possibly dozens more party member into parliament for the first time ,many young people are heeding the call to battle.

“I want to fight for the truth,”25-year -old NLD merber  Thuzer Lwin said at the party’s ramshackle Yangon headquarters,where she was helping to re-register recently freed dissident on the membership list.

“I believe in my leader Aung San Suu Kyi.” Young Myanmars have often been at the vanguard of their country’s decades-old resistance to oppression and military rule,but in the past they often waged their cappaign on the street or in the shadows.

Now they feel more able to make their voices heard.In 1988,students were at the forefront of the biggest ever uprising against the military regime,which cracked down brutally on protesters,resulting in up to 3,000 deaths and leaving students under the close watch of the authorities.

Almost two decades later in 2007, the same activists again took to the streets to join monk-led protests dubbed the “Saffron Revolution”that were crushed by the regime.

Many were handed long prison sentences for their roles in the unrest and some were only recently released by the new military-backed government as part  of prisoner amnesties long demanded by the international community.

Now in their 40s, they are making way for a new generation.

“We,re not as young as we were,the former students of the 1988 movement,So we’re trying to work with member of the young generation and in another month or so we expect to stand united,”said NLD youth spokesman Myo Nyunt.

“Now many,many young people want to join our NLD party.”

Not all youth activists,however are choosing to sign up to the NLD in their struggle.

Bo Bo,23,quit university in 2008 and joined the Generation Wave underground movement,which uses music,poetry and other forms of peaceful expression.

The group has now started to organise more open activities to campaign for political and human rights.

“I wanted to do something for the country,”he said.

“We are not going to form a political party.We would like to be an activist organisation,that’s all,”Bo Bo said.

Many young voters in the constituencies involved in the April by election,where 48 seats will be at stake,will be casting ballots for the second time.

The new government has promised that this time,the vote will be free and fair,unlike 2010 nationwide election that was marred by widespread complaints of cheating of cheating and swept the amy’s political allies to power. -AFP

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