Dictator Trains Sights on ‘Unethical’ CDM doctors

By The Irrawaddy 24 December 2022

Regime boss can’t disguise his hatred for hanging medics 

Exasperated by hundreds of docs becoming a member of the Civil Disobedience Motion (CDM), junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has resorted to calling the hanging medics “unethical”.

Talking to graduates of the Protection Providers Medical Academy in Yangon on December 21, Min Aung Hlaing stated CDM medics have been ignoring their skilled responsibility to public healthcare and thereby hurting sufferers. He additionally accused them of disloyalty.

Organized resistance to final 12 months’s army takeover began with healthcare employees saying a boycott of state-run hospitals. Well being employees launched the primary road protests and the CDM. The nationwide strikes by medics have been a severe blow to the junta, given they have been led by docs at government-run hospitals that type the spine of Myanmar’s well being system.

Medics stated abandoning their hospitals was a troublesome moral determination. However they insisted they’d not return to work except democracy was restored in Myanmar. The general public understood that well being employees have been performing with good intentions after many years of earlier army rule left the nation’s healthcare system in ruins.

The brand new Protection Providers Medical Academy graduates might, nevertheless, have been discouraged when Min Aung Hlaing informed them they could have to interact in fight operations on prime of their medical duties.

Myanmar’s army has been hit onerous by casualties and desertions in every day clashes with resistance forces and ethnic armed organizations throughout the nation. And additionally it is struggling to draw younger cadets and recruits because of its indiscriminate violence in opposition to civilians.

Min Aung Hlaing continues his ego journey

Min Aung Hlaing squandered extra public funds on empty titles when he conferred honors on 88 people to mark Karen New Yr’s Day on December 22.

Additionally ringing hole was the message he used to mark the event, with a number of phrases stolen from jailed State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s handle final 12 months.

Many of the 88 recipients have been army and law enforcement officials, together with seven former police chiefs. All besides Tun Hla Aung, who served as police chief after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, have been loyalists of army dictators.

Recipients of the Thiri Pyanchi included Colonel Shwe Than, who served as Myanmar’s police chief from 1975 to 1978 beneath the nation’s first army dictator, Basic Ne Win. Shwe Than is the daddy of former Lieutenant Colonel Ye Htut, who was data minister within the quasi-civilian authorities led by ex-general Thein Sein.

One other recipient was former police chief Colonel Zaw Win.

He was in cost when Nationwide League for Democracy authorized advisor U Ko Ni, who was a vocal critic of the army-drafted 2008 Structure, was assassinated exterior Yangon Worldwide Airport in 2017. Former army officers have been concerned in organizing the assassination. Zaw Win, nevertheless, described what was extensively thought-about a politically motivated homicide as a murder pushed by private grudges.