The general state of insecurity is growing even in areas far away from the fiercest battles.
Once on board, they pulled out knives and forced a passenger to surrender her earrings. Another commuter next to her was ordered to remove her necklace. When a young man tried to intervene, he was beaten up by the gang.“He didn’t drive the bus to the police station,” Ms Aye, who did not give her full name for security reasons, told The Straits Times.
While definitive crime statistics were not available, over 10 urban residents contacted by ST reported having been victims of or witnessed crimes affecting their friends and relatives, making them unwilling to venture outdoors at nightfall or fearful of carrying anything valuable when they leave their homes.
While the junta prepares to hold fresh elections in 2023 under new rules tilted to favour its allies, Myanmar has seen a deterioration in food security and nutrition in 2022. “There is not much we can do but run,” Ms Aye told ST. “These days, I leave my phone behind when I go out... I take only enough money for transportation. And I don’t wear jewellery any more.”Ms Oo, a grocer in Yangon, has witnessed a rise in brazen thefts from her shopfront.
He was jogging in Yangon’s busy Kandawgyi Lake Park at dusk when he was stabbed in the chest by robbers who made off with his ring and smartphone.
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