When an existing problem spins into the mix, the dust in Myanmar’s devastating earthquake is still stirring: Can this deadly tectonic plate increase the tectonic plate caused, which adds another layer of trauma to the countries that have already plagued the civil war, and also predestined the ruler of the ruler of Burma?
On the second day after the Myanmar military regime celebrated the country’s 80th Armed Forces Day, the earthquake killed at least 1,000 people, potentially causing at least more than 1,000 people, and celebrated the country’s 80th Armed Forces Day in a march in Naypyidaw, the capital purpose of a group of generals.
The order of events is hard to ignore.
Omens and rumors have long been valued in a dictatorial country with little information flow. Four years ago, when the ruling generals seized power, they blocked the country and restored superstition and advocacy. The earthquake is indeed in Burma’s elaborate astrology. A popular version points out that the March earthquake marked the city’s destruction, while a July earthquake was a prophecy of the king and rulers.
The military strongholds remain in the city, just like Mandalay, the second largest in the country and one of the worst people hit by earthquakes. Daw Marlar Myint, 89, said it was the worst natural disaster she had ever encountered. She is the retired school principal and did not wait for her predictions until July.
“We have one saying that a huge earthquake like this is the way to punish cruel and corrupt rulers,” she said. “After killing so many people, Min Aung Hlaing is now facing the judgment of nature.”
She added: “Even the bones of the man he was murdered were trembling.”
Civil war broke out in the Southeast Asian country since General Min Aung Hlaing, the senior king of Myanmar elected government, overthrew the government in 2021. Now, most of the territory is in the hands of resistance, and the military has been strengthened in the big cities. The military government has terrorist attacks on civilian areas with attacks in Gaza in recent months.
Burmese rebels – clumsy ethnic minority militia, opposition politicians and tech-savvy youth who honed drone war from the jury – with little international support. The Myanmar military is a bloody soldier, deserted. Still, it is punishing the jungle war, and both sides are desperate to exit.
As people in Myanmar investigate the consequences of Saturday’s earthquake, screams from people trapped under the wreckage were still echoing the towns, and the full scope of the disaster was just beginning to form.
Ko Kyaw works in Singapore, a large expatriate from young, educated people from Myanmar who fled their country to find better jobs overseas. He has been sending money to his parents, his wife and two 4 and 7 daughters. They were both killed in the earthquake when their Mandalay apartment building crashed to the ground. Their bodies are part of piles arranged in the nearby hall, and there is no room for burial.
For most of the post-colonial history, Myanmar (formerly known as Myanmar) was ruled by a military dictatorship. Generations of generals rely on Ford Taylors and astrologers to guide their policy decisions. A former chieftain Tian consulted a dwarf and she spoke through her sister. (Those who initially paid a lot for her personal consultation meetings said that the sister continued to prophecy after her sibling died, but her prophecy lost its authenticity.
A former spy chief collects White Elephant (real, live life) to shape his power. An earlier government leader was so superstitious about him using the nine-country currency as numbers, including 45 and 90. General Min Aung Hlaing, the current military chief, dedicated the temple and presented the great Buddha to Naypyidaw to demonstrate his reputation. He also collected the white elephants.
For the general, perhaps the final prediction was in 2005. At that time, when Seers determined the exact timing, the most auspicious thing was to start a secret move from the capital of Myanmar to the unnamed yet-to-named construction site in the center of the country. After consultation with the fortune teller, the truck began a northern convoy, which soon became known as Naypyidaw or the king’s residence.
Today, unlike Yangon, new capital is defended by hills and attacked invincible at sea. In 2008, when Cyclone Nargis crashed into the old capital and the nearby Irrawaddy Delta, killing or missing more than 130,000 people. The generals celebrated their heavy capital (again real live life) on the ice with large boulevards, large government departments and penguins.
But Friday’s earthquake was not the benignity of the Naipid doll. The government department cracked it. Portraits of top leaders including the ordinary Min Aung Hlaing fell on the floor. According to Myanmar media, the capital’s air traffic control tower was overturned and at least seven people were killed.
On the hill not far away, the rebels were watching. There are fewer tall buildings in the territory they control, and Friday’s earthquake had less impact on them. But even as residents of Mandalay and other urban areas, such as Saguapai and Kyaukse, dug rubble with their exposed hands and prying each brick to get closer to the possible survivors, the Burmese military has regained its old habits.
On Friday night, the latter fighter dropped bombs on the rebel-held Naung Lin Village at Northern Shan State, bordering the Mandalay region. There were no casualties this time, but two days ago, four people were killed in a nearby village. A week and a half before that, 10 people living in a seminary in the same township died in an air attack.
“I can’t believe they had air strikes at the same time as the earthquake,” said Lway Yal Oo, a resident of naung lin. “Min Aung Hlaing is creating a killing field in Myanmar.”
In Yangon, an astrologer of the highest office official said the highest brass’ belief in the star sign has not diminished. If anything, they will stick to their faith more as control over the country decreases. The astrologer doesn’t want to use her name because of talking about the sensitivity of her high-profile military client, and he says General Minne aung hlaing relies heavily on Buddhist Talisians to take power.
Astrologers said a military agency called her on Saturday morning and asked for help protecting the military captain’s holdings in Myanmar. She recommends always wearing Buddha amulets.
But, astrologers say she believes the earthquake is an ominous sign of the general.
