The black hole of Yangon

摘要

Skyrocketing prices, collapsing public services and power cuts that regularly engulf Yangon in darkness for up to 20 hours at a time are the daily lot of many residents in the capital of Myanmar. In other developing countries, this would lead to mass demonstrations, even serious unrest. But in Myanmar-formerly called Burma―it only deepens a mood of dark pessimism, its weary citizens being all too aware of the bloody result of the last peaceful protests, in 1988. The movement was crushed by the Myanmarese army, leaving perhaps 3,000 dead.