Leak of personal information from those involved with NUG online school face arrest and job losses

July 26, 2022

HURFOM: “Kaung For You” is an online school which operates under the National Unity Government (NUG). Because the NUG has been clear in their opposition to the military junta, the online school attracted significant attention from young people. Approximately 20,000 students had registered with the school.

Recently, the school server was hacked and personal information identifying teachers and students involved with the school was leaked. The military junta responded by arresting individuals connected with the school.

School teachers working at private schools in Mawlamyine and who were also active in the Civil Disobedience Movement or with Kaung For you, have now been dismissed by the local school authority.

“I’m a CDM activist and schoolteacher and I worked as a part-timer at a private school. After the (Kaung For You) case became public, the headmaster called me and said “Please don’t come to school by tomorrow”,” said one school teacher from Mawlamyine.

On July 14, 2022, the military junta went to one home to arrest a student in Mudon Township who had registered with the “Kaung For You” online initiative. They did not find the student, and attempted to intimidate an elderly person at the house to reveal the place where the student was hiding. The junta officials threatened they would seize the house.

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