The documentary film Thabyay - Creative Resistance in Myanmar was screened at Vega Scene 5 March and followed by a panel discussion about the power of art and activism and the long journey of popular resistance against military rule in Myanmar. The event was a cooperation between HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and the PRIO Centre on Culture, Conflict and Coexistence (CCC). In the film we met four activists who use their art and their creativity to express their dream of a peaceful, democratic and free Myanmar.
After the film, CCC co-director Marte Nilsen invited Maung Maung Myint and Tayza Naing for a conversation about the film and about their own engagement and activism. Maung Maung Myint came to Norway after the bloody suppression of the student uprising in 1988. Since then, he has helped establish the news channel DVB, contributed to the solidarity movement for Myanmar, and is today the Norwegian representative of the democratic National Unity Government. Tayza Naing is a Norwegian Burmese rap artist who experienced a political awakening when his parents' homeland in 2021 again fell into dictatorship, after several years of openness. Despite the brutality that people in Myanmar are facing, the two activists firmly believe in a democratic and peaceful future for Myanmar.
