JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of our law student correspondents in Myanmar offers further thoughts on economic realities under the military junta, and offers her perspective on developments Wednesday:

There is a website that any CDM [Civil Disobedience Movement] staffs can access for any support they need. We also have a call center. None of us will go starve. I’m confident we all can go for several months. It [the current crisis and the military junta] won’t even last that long, with serious action from the international community. Brace yourself, juntas. My confidence lies with the big heart of these people and the belief in justice that the international community holds.

Newly appointed Myanmar representative to the UN, Dr. Sa Sa, will do his job very well. He will speak for our true voices. We need to promote the legitimacy of CRPH more and more [Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw; this is the group of deposed National League of Democracy parliamentarians that is holding itself out as the locus of legitimate civilian authority in Myanmar, and which appointed Sa Sa as its UN representative].

We won’t let any illegitimate groups run our government. We’ll go by our own rules. There is no theft or any offences done by Myanmar People. The military is the only trash we have. In some places, especially the houses of CDM staffs, they arrest children and wife who remain at home because they are supposed to arrest the husband but they can’t find him currently. Nothing in the law says it’s a legitimate arrest. They’re abusing the law.

Another of our correspondents writes Wednesday that another person seriously injured when police and soldiers opened fire on peaceful protestors in Mandalay on Saturday has died, which brings the official death toll from that incident to 4. Earlier local reports had said that up to 7 had been killed.