"Fighting the junta is also fighting for women’s rights."
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“If the country is handed over to such a naive terrorist group, the fate of the country is unthinkable.”
In Burma, I would say it is more a question of inequality among men and women than outright discrimination. Discrimination against women means not assigning women to different institutions of the government, not because of any flaws or inabilities, but just because they are a woman. In Burma, it is a traditional and cultural belief that women have lower status than women. Combine that with religious deception, and you see that our Burmese society has tendencies to not give women their appropriate respect and opportunity.
The situation is even worse in the SAC and military. Most female officers are only in the medical sector and do not have much presence in others. And it is not because of women’s rights but for the wives of the officers. Even then, they have prejudice toward women. Only men can get promotions to Colonel and General, and never women, even if they have equal skills. In the current SAC’s regime, they have now started calling for women soldiers, as if they are suddenly concerned about granting equal rights to women. But it was just for show and there are no clear policies for how women will be promoted or which chances or opportunities will be given.
What I want to ask is will they promote women to be a commanding officer, tactical operation commander, or division level commander? Or general staff officer or director level? I think not.
What is for sure is even if a female officer is capable, they won’t give it to her, and only because she is a woman will they deny it. They pretended to be modern, but the conservative army would still discriminate against women, and only because they are women.
It also highlights that the military’s jealousy toward women is even more uncontrollable regarding any encounter with Aung San Suu Kyi. In the ideology of the 21st century, it has been known that women’s rights are important to the development of the country, and the junta remains ignorant and violent, and if the country is handed over to such a naive terrorist group, the fate of the country is unthinkable.
Fighting the junta is also fighting for women’s rights. May SAC fall for the fate of the country and the rights of women.
The revolution must succeed.