Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for the presentation.
I think we all know that the military in Myanmar can be particularly brutal. Back in 1988 in their demonstration for democracy, more than 1,000 demonstrators were killed by military action. Despite that history, we see quite a large number of demonstrations in reaction to what's happened with the coup that took place on February 1.
In the aftermath of the coup, large demonstrations were going on. The successful parliamentarians, who were not allowed to be sworn in, got together and appointed what would be called a cabinet—I think they call it something else, the committee for representing the union of parliament—and they have formed what might be considered some sort of alternative government, although in hiding.
I was told by someone very knowledgeable that the demonstrations were aimed at urging public servants not to go to work in some sort of withdrawal of service in the hopes of being able to prevent the military from governing. There was some hope that might be successful.
Can you tell us anything about that side of things? Is that continuing? Does that have any prospect of growth, or is this a matter of the military government being successful in suppressing the demonstrations to date?