Case Study 2 About 2,000 workers from the ADK garment factory located in the Zay Kabar factory compound in Yangon Region staged a protest on 7 July 2022 to demand 10 points, including wage increases, professional and product rewards increase, a weekend holiday, ending the use of Sunday as a substitute workday, and providing medical and social leave to end the deduction of salary for absences. The ADK garment factory, which employs almost 7,000 people, produces CRIVIT, an international sportswear brand, among other feather outfits.6 Protestor from Garment Factories of Yangon suburban townships gathered in Hlaing Township, Yangon on 6th February, 2021 as the first gathering for the mass protest. (1.5) Self-immolation U Aung Aung, a civilian in Kyaukpadaung township, Mandalay Region, took his life after setting himself on fire before the electric power office on Myingyan – Kyaukpadaung highway on 1 February 2022, marking the first anniversary of the coup. U Aung Aung held a banner that read, “May the public have access to electricity for 24 hours (a day). We will not revert back to 2001 and 2002” during his self-immolation.7 Local media reported U Aung Aung’s self-immolation whereas the international media did not. (1.6) Peaceful Protests and the Role of Women and LGBTQIA+ The very first person who sacrificed life in the Spring Revolution is a lady called Ma Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing who passed away on 19 February 2021 after she had been declared brain dead. She had been hit with a brutal shooting by the junta’s security forces in a peaceful protest near Thabyay Gon roundabout in Nay Pyi Daw downtown area on 9 February 2021. Ma Kyal Zin, a 19-year-old girl was shot in the head on 3 March 2021 while participating in a protest and wearing a T-shirt bearing the message “Everything will be okay.” In commemoration of International Women’s Day, women waved the “htamein” (female sarong) as their flags and led protests across the country on 8 March 2021.8 Sarong flags and sarong strikes became a campaign not only depicting the courage of women but challenging the orthodox notions that describe the “htamein” (female sarong) as inferior clothing. ဇေ�ကမ္ဘာာ�စက််ရုံံဝ � င်းး�အတွွင်းး� အထည််ချုု�ပ်် အလုုပ််သမား�း ထော�ာင််ချီီ�ဆန္ဒဒပြ�. (2022, July 7). Radio Free Asia. https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/workers-protest-in-yangon-07072022104437. html 6 မော�ာင််ရွှေ�ေဝါါ, (2022, February 1). ကျော�ာ�က််ပန်းး�တော�ာင်းး�တွွင်် ကိုု�ယ့့်�ကိုု�ယ််ကိုု�ယ််မီး�း ရှို့့��၍ စစ််ကော�ာင််စီီကိုု� ဆန္ဒဒပြ�. Myanmar Now. 7 https://www.myanmar-now.net/mm/news/10295?width=500&height=500&inline=true စစ််အာာဏာာရှှင်် ဆန့့်�ကျျင််ရေး�း အမျိုး�း��သမီးး�တို့့��၏ ထဘီီအလံံထူူ သပိိတ််တိုု�က််ပွဲဲ�. (2021, March 8). Irrawaddy. 8 https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/03/08/239157.html 6