Myanmar earthquake: ‘I feel guilty

The last time Soe Ko Naing saw that the great uncle was on the bank of Irrawaddy in his house in July.

COP, which supports the resistance of Myanmar’s military hunt, is to avoid the country. One thousand kun, a small town in the Sagaing military force, did not trust someone enough to say about the plan of the KO – his girlfriend OO OO (‘uncle’).

“I said I was going to Thailand. He thought it was a good plan. He wished goodness and safety,” he said, 35-year-old labor rights activist. “

For about a year, Ko Naing is safe in Thailand. However, Oo Oo, near Mandalay last Friday, was killed by a strong earthquake that lost at least 2,000 people.

“I have sleepless nights. I still suffer,” said Ko Naing.

“I don’t have regrets because I left the country because I feel sincere. But I feel guilty, because our people need us the most.” I feel helpless. “

Ko Naing is one of the millions of myanmar diaspora in the fight against their countries after the largest earthquake in a century.

Like him, many feel the sin and desperation of survivors. For some, these feelings are united in their failure to help them in the rescue efforts or to go back in their non-returning to the relatives or face political persecution.

In Thailand, the world’s largest Myanmar Diaspora society has about 4.3 million myanmic citizens, although there is a higher in this figure, although there is a higher the documentary migrants.

As a rich neighbor, a large part of the migrant workforce attracted people to Myanmar for a long time. 2021 The military coup and the next civil war is swollen only.

Some work in the construction sector – a bangkok collapsed due to the earthquake, most of the 400 employees in the skyscraper are probably from Myanmar in the agricultural and offshore industry.

A drizzly Monday Samut morning, a lot of workers near Bangkok, who are many employees near Bangkok, the traditional Burmese Longgyi and Thanaka, women, drowned the alley of a street market in the cheeks.

Myanmar showed banners, shops, both Thailand and Bigfish signs for calling.

“We saw online videos of people in the collapse and destruction of the buildings. We are so sad for not able to do anything,” said 30-year-old factory worker Yin Yin, who was in the crowd, is worried about the return home.

28, 28, centuries of a city, which is affected by the earthquake, mourned the collapse of temples in the century-old pagods and territory. “What disaster! I feel very bad … have never experienced this degree in this degree before.”

Ko between the city, sat in the office, checked innovations about his family. At least 150 people live in sagaing and mandalay or around.

Friday earthquake could be felt in Thailand, India and China that was so great. On that day, Ko, Samut Sakhon was sleeping hundreds of kilometers, he said he felt that the room was shaken for about 30 seconds.

He immediately went to social media and discovered that the earthquake occurred near a thousand Kun. Then Sagaing came across a picture of the Ava Bridge – a local space – a picture of the river in a local space. “I have been shocked and devastated, I have many relatives in that area. I thought it should be ‘fake news’. But it was real.”

After the earthquake, in Myanmar, with slow communication, KO has heard of relatives only on Saturday. Almost everyone was safe, for example, except for a distant aunt who died in Mandalay, except for him and his OO OO.

A week ago, thousand kun and the surroundings were fired by servicemen who targeted the opposition of the people’s defense forces. Almost all KO’s family in the city fled to Sagaing, or a military control area in Mandalay.

Oo Oo, knowing that the servicemen would not attack Buddhist sites, dismantled and refused to shelter in the village monastery.

However, the monastery completely collapsed when the earthquake occurred on Friday. The body was found in the rubble on Monday.

Ko Naing remembers OO OO as an open and open 60 year old. Two in a territory that servicemen dominates, two about shared support for resistance after two coups.

In the summer, two of the afternoons will have lunch and report. Its great uncle had no phone and social media, and Ko Naing will help him to check updates on the civil war. “I was a personal news agency,” he joked.

Oo Oo retired her work as a boat when she lived a shot in partial paralysis. Still, each morning mixed his family’s tea shop and blushed EE Kyar Kwe with dough.

“He was a source of inspiration in particularly difficult times … He was the only one I could talk. I bought my authority from him,” said Ko Naing.

Ko naing said that this sustainability, wife and his five-year-old son were killed dangerously from Myanmar. He was sought by servicemen who guarantees a detention to participate in peace protests.

His family went to the border in Thailand. Because the Thai border was fled in the dark from the police station, the family walked on a large pipe and fell to the ground. His son fell backwards. Ko naing was afraid of the worst.

However, his relief, his son wept loud. Ko Naing hit his hand in the child’s mouth, took him and took him to the smuggler who waited on a motorcycle came to a tower. Initially, Samut sakhta went to Thailand’s city before traveling to Samut Sakhon.

Although now it is safe, Ko Naing said, “I’m very depressed at the moment to be honest.

“First, the pandemic, then there was a blow, then the soldiers killed people who opposed them. People fell.

“Then the earthquake added to the suffering. After the earthquake, he keeps military bombing.

“If we can do something, if we can be there, if we could be there … you see the news about the depressive, my country living here.”

Collect donations with Myanmar Diaspora and work to send humanitarian aid to earthquake victims to victims. Dealing as a result of the collapse of the Bangkok building, myanmar also helps construction workers.

“If we always feel depressed, no one will help our people … good we are fine. We can do something yet.

“We need to make our opinion on how to re-establish and move on.”