An Umbrella Policy

Insight Myanmar · Aug 7, 2026 · 2h 10m

Episode #585: “We can’t go back to the normal life, because our country is not even normal,” says Tone Tone, a former psychology student from Yangon, describing how Myanmar’s 2021 military coup shattered any hope of remaining apolitical. In this conversation she is joined by Liberia, a civil engineering graduate who became a strike organizer, and together they recount how violence transformed them from ordinary students into underground activists willing to risk prison and death.

Before February 1, 2021, neither had political ambitions. Tone Tone was finishing university and helping with her…