Yangon – Myanmar students began a new school year on Thursday, with classrooms becoming the latest battleground in the polarized country — the junta is desperate to project normalcy and opponents want teachers and students to stay away.
Public schoolteachers — dressed in the green and white uniforms mandated by the education ministry — were prominent in the early mass protests against the military coup last year.
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