Ousted lawmakers form resistance

IN a spartan hillside room in India furnished only with a thin sleeping mat, the Myanmar member of parliament spends much of his days attentively listening to Zoom conference calls and tapping away messages on his smartphone.

The short, soft-spoken man is among a dozen ousted Myanmar MPs who have fled across the border to India’s remote northeastern region after the military’s Feb 1 coup and lethal crackdown on dissent.Reuters spoke to two of the lawmakers and a Myanmar politician, all involved with the Committee for Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a body of ousted lawmakers that is attempting to re-establish the civilian government and displace the military.