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Mizoram, Mar 25 (EFE/EPA).- Myanmar police officers, who have sought refuge in India, said they fled their country after defying orders to shoot people peacefully protesting against the Feb.1 military coup in their country.Now, they fear persecution, imprisonment, or even death if the India deports them to the military-ruled home country.(Camera: STRINGER). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH FORMER POLCE OFFICERS WHO FLED COUP IN MIZORAN, INDIA.SOUND BITES: MYANMAR FORMER POLICE OFFICERS LIANMAWI AND VANLAL (IN BURMESE).TRANSLATIONS:1. MYANMAR'S FORMER POLICE OFFICER LIANMAWI (00:00 - 03:49).After the coup they (military) changed our uniform, we were made to were police uniform, they even changed the colour of our fire vans. On Feb. 18, we were given order by the army to hose down the CDM activists. We told them we could not do it because the protesters were our own people, our brothers and sisters. We were sure the army was trying to create a divide between us. My colleagues and even the drivers also refused to obey their orders. From that instance I became a part of the CDM resistance. I told my superior, director of fire services of Chin Hills state that I supported the resistance. At first he said no harm would come and that he would protect me from the army. My colleagues also told our director frankly that they supported the CDM resistance. We told him that we do not want to get involved in the army’s attempt to repress the movement. We told our director that we would not drive fire tenders and operate machines to hose our own people, and told him that we were a part of the resistance. Then, he seems quite okay with it.But soon the orders changed. On Mar. 2 afternoon, we heard that Myanmar's army were on their way to arrest us for defying orders. We ran pell-mell. Some of my colleagues even jumped out of the windows and hurt themselves seriously. From that point, we were certain that were not safe anymore. We hid in the forests avoiding the army and crossed over to Mizoram. Our director, who we thought was with us gave orders to arrest our family, our wives and kids. We informed our wives and kids, our families to run away and find safe houses. We know they ran, but to where we don’t know. Now we cannot contact them anymore.We have heard that the Indian government made orders to repatriate us. If we are repatriated we will surely die. I’m an officer and I’m sure they will not spare me. They’ll torture us, I don’t know how … We will die if we are repatriated. 2. MYANMAR'S FORMER POLICE OFFICER VANLAL (03:48 - 04:27).- We were ordered to shoot the protesters. The Myanmar's army ordered us to shoot and kill, but it was impossible to shoot our own kins who were organizing a peaceful demonstration. We cannot hurt our people. We defied the army’s direct order and we have no choice but to run. That is why I came to Mizoram. If I am deported, I will not have any chance (to live). I will die. They will kill me.
New Delhi, Mar 2 (EFE/EPA).- Indian Myanmar's pro-democracy activists and Myanmar refugees living in India gathered in downtown New Delhi on Wednesday to protest the military coup.Hundreds of pro-democracy activists and Aung San Suu Kyi supporters gathered and held a protest after Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and other top political leaders were detained in a military coup on 1 February amid allegations of voter fraud in the November 2020 elections in Myanmar. The Myanmar army justified the seizure of power on alleged electoral fraud in November’s general elections, in which international observers did not detect any rigging and in which the National League for Democracy, the party led by deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory. (Camera: HARISH TYAGI). SHOT LIST: INDIAN MYANMAR'S PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS AND MYANMAR REFUGEES LIVING IN INDIA PARTICIPATE IN A PROTEST AGAINST THE MYANMAR MILITARY COUP IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Some 200 Burmese refugees and others gather in Delhi Wednesday to protest against the military coup and violence in Myanmar. Many of them hold placards, sing songs and some carry fake coffins with photos of Myanmar's commander-in-chief General Min Aung Hlaing as well as Chinese President Xi Jinping. IMAGES
Thiangsai, Oct 16 (EFE/EPA).- Child refugees from Myanmar have joined schools across Tuichangral areas in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram seeking an Indian system of education and a chance to rebuild their life in a foreign country.More than 350 child refugees in the far eastern districts of Champhai and Hnahthial have started attending classes defying odds and language barriers in a country they don’t know, after escaping the ongoing civil conflict in Myanmar, following a military coup in February. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR).SHOT LIST: CHILDREN REGUFEES FROM MYANMAR JOIN SCHOOLS IN THIANGSAI, INDIA.
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).