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Myanmar: Bitter lessons learned, a former cadet joins the resistance
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NAYPYITAW, 30 August 2021, (TON): Half a lifetime ago, 39-year-old Yangon resident Nyein Chan Hmu was part of an unlikely rebellion that pitted students of a military college against the junta that then ruled Myanmar.
In 2002, he was a member of the fourth batch of cadets at the Military Technology College (MTC) in Pyin Oo Lwin. This was also, as it turned out, the last batch, as the new college was closed that same year following a mutiny by its students.
Angered to learn that they would graduate at a lower rank than they had expected, and without the professional qualifications they had hoped to obtain, the students rose up. And the army, true to form, cracked down.
Thousands of students were caught up in that little-known uprising, and by the time it was all over, dozens were serving long prison sentences for daring to challenge the top generals’ authority.
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