FIGHTING THE CARTEL

Sai, a software engineer in central Myanmar, didn’t vote in last November’s general election. He paid little attention to politics. The coup, for the 24-year-old, was a brutal awakening.

Within days he began developing an app that listed every company and product he could find with ties to the Myanmar military. Working with a friend from his downtown apartment – circumventing erratic internet shutdowns and blocked websites – he launched Way Way Nay (‘Stay Far Away’).

Sai was at the forefront of a growing domestic boycott movement that seeks to sever the tentacles of the multi-billion-dollar trade Myanmar’s generals have built over decades. For the first time citizens are not only mobilizing en