Former student leader Ko Ko Gyi told DVB that two women with the group, Ma Thin Thin Aye and Ma Lay Lay Mon, had been followed by five men on motorbikes who circled them at slow speeds and taunted them. 

 

“We reported the incident to the peace and development council in Thingangyun township,” Ko Ko Gyi said. 

 

“But the harassment didn’t stop and the motorbike incidents got worse to the point where they became ridiculous public displays,” he said. 

 

The 88 Generation Students said that they had already approached both the Military Security Forces and the Special Police’s Information Force and told them that if they had a problem with the group, they should start constructive dialogue. 

 

“This situation was not created by us. It has gotten to the point where it is difficult for us to even visit our families because they drive back and forth past our houses making loud noises,” Ko Ko Gyi said. 

 

“We conduct our activities out in the open. Next time it happens in public we will stop what we are doing and inform everyone around us of what they are doing,” he warned.