I came into this helpless world and tried my best to fight

On February 28, the deadliest day in Myanmar's non-cooperation movement, security forces used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas to chase people in major cities.

The United Nations said 18 people were killed; The Irrawaddy reported at least 15 dead and thousands arrested. A list of 26 people circulated among Myanmar Facebook users.

Today is the 74th anniversary of the 228 Incident in Taiwan. 74 years later, Taiwan has become a country with a mature democratic system. However, many people in neighboring countries still live under tyranny. It is suffocating after tasting the air of freedom. tyranny.

After the coup in Myanmar, the "Milk Tea Alliance" that originally supported Thailand joined Myanmar, and the Taiwanese flag of the Republic of China also appeared on the streets of Yangon after the people's rudimentary rejection of the security forces.

What does Taiwan mean to the Burmese people?

I asked myself a question that I couldn't answer. While traveling and writing in Myanmar, I was too busy looking around at everything and didn’t think about this issue.

I have been identified as Japanese, Korean and Chinese, and the strange "Republic of China" on my passport seemed to make it easier for me to pass the military checkpoint. The cleaning aunts in the company are a group of Burmese overseas Chinese. They will track my Facebook and Myanmar travels, and which Burmese cities this teacher went to on leave. When I go to and from work, the aunts will greet me in Burmese - this is the only remaining Burmese language I have. language level.

A question often asked in interviews or lectures is, "How can Taiwanese readers understand Myanmar?"

For me, I learned about Myanmar through the works of British writer George Orwell. Both Taiwan and Myanmar have experienced being colonized and plundered. In 2015, I finished reading the ending of Orwell's "The Burmese Years" in the northern town of Kassa, and I cried quietly. I suddenly understood Orwell's emotion of not being accepted by the Southeast Asian world. It turns out that there are people who are as alien as me. .

The reason for starting to write is the wish I made at the Burmese pagoda in 2014: "Introduce Myanmar in Traditional Chinese." If Traditional Chinese can present different values ​​and beliefs.

The white terror and state violence that Taiwan has experienced are currently being carried out in the countries of the "Milk Tea Alliance", Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar, shaking the almost impossible system. Groups of people are crowding in. The front row falls, and the back row immediately takes over. responsibility.

The Burmese poet Duk Men Hlaing wrote two untitled poems:

 I came into this helpless world and I tried my best to fight

Diffuse smoke, young people rushing towards tear gas, carrying rackets and smoke extinguishing tools;

The protesters stood on defenseless self-rejection horses, shouting at the troops, quixotically;

The old man begged and cried to the army because he had experienced the bloody suppression of the anti-junta movement in 1988 and 2007;

Everyone raised their bleeding limbs and ran , no one would be left behind.

If a bullet comes at any time, will you rush forward? Hong Kongers, Thais, and Burmese all rushed forward.

The Taiwanese flag of the Republic of China appears on the streets of Yangon as a member of the "Milk Tea Alliance". How can Taiwan stand behind Myanmar?

Photos from BBC Burmese Myanmar Now The Irrawaddy - Burmese Edition