Social media users last night shared a photo of a raised three fingers campaigning #VoiceOutForDemocracy calling for public action such as drumming up pots, buckets or any cookware. Yangon General Hospital today /p3EBjPyeuh It was part of a collective act of civil disobedience at 30 hospitals in 30 towns, which halted work briefly today to protest the coup d’etat. Medics at the Yangon General Hospital this morning gathered outside the hospital to attach red ribbons to their scrub suits and raise three fingers. The three-finger salute is also being widely used among the public in Myanmar, where the civilian government enjoyed broad support, and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was widely revered. Myanmar’s decade-long attempt to return to democracy came to a sudden end Monday, when the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is called, rolled out the tanks, arrested the elected civilian leadership and installed its supreme commander as head of state.
Prayuth Chan-o-cha, who seven years later remains in power. The salute was first seen within days of Thailand’s 2014 coup by those expressing defiance against the military regime of Gen. The 24-year-old model-actor, fresh from winning praise for his diving triceps as a short-timer monk, posted a photo of himself making the salute. So was one of Myanmar’s hottest models, Paing Takhon, a crossborder phenomenon with legions of Thai fans. Win Htein, at left, and Kyi Toe of the National League for Democracy raise three-finger salutes in resistance to Myanmar’s coup.
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