‘Please save us’: Myanmar beauty queen speaks out against military violence in her country
- Han Lay, in Bangkok competing for the Miss Grand International crown, hit out at the military crackdown against nationwide protests in her home country
- ‘As a representative of Myanmar I will walk on the stage of Miss Grand International with the [message] stop the war and violence,’ Han Lay wrote on Facebook
Her social media posts are a mix of graphic photos and footage from the unrest back home, protest messages and photos of herself wearing ball gowns. And this week, Myanmar’s Miss Grand International contestant Han Lay made a plea to end the violence in her homeland.
Han Lay, in Thailand’s Bangkok competing for the Miss Grand crown against 63 other contestants, hit out at the crackdown, in which more than 280 people have been killed.
“I want to say from here to the world: please support the Myanmar people,” she told Thailand’s Khaosod English news outlet.
“So many people die in Myanmar by the guns of the military … please save us.”
The psychology student said some of her peers had been detained since the coup. “Students from the University of Yangon, my university, were also detained,” she said on her Instagram page.