Inside the junta’s war on student unions

Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.

Frontier MYANMAR | 18 MAY, 2022

A month after Sittwe University reopened in January of this year, its authorities told the students’ union and the teachers’ union that their offices on campus would be demolished.

“The university authorities said they wanted to open a recreation centre on the site of our office and that we needed to move, and that they would not allow us to have an office on the campus,” said law student Ko Kyaw Naing Htay, 24, a member of the Sittwe University Students’ Union interim executive committee.