As Miss Universe Myanmar since the coup, I have been speaking out as much as I can," she said. "I would like to urge everyone to speak about Myanmar. "Our people are dying and being shot by the military every day," she said in a video message for the competition, where she was appearing in the finals at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Thailand hosts as many as 4 million migrant workers from Myanmar, many of whom are sympathetic with the protest movement, but fear their jobs might be in jeopardy if they speak out as Thai officials have warned them not to be politically active.HOLLYWOOD, Florida: Myanmar's Miss Universe contestant, Thuzar Wint Lwin, used the pageant on Sunday (May 16) to urge the world to speak out against the military junta, whose security forces have killed hundreds of opponents since it seized power in a Feb 1 coup. It was also significant that Han Lay's call for action at the Miss Grand International pageant came from within Thailand. The government last month issued arrest warrants for several well-known actors and directors who been publicly supportive of the protests, charging them under a public order law that carries a penalty of up to three years in prison. Inside Myanmar, celebrities from the world of modeling and entertainment added a bit of glamour to the protest movement before the government unleashed lethal violence on it. The highest profile defection was Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar's representative at the United Nations, who declared his new loyalties at an official session of the world body and flashed the three-finger salute of the protest movement at the end of his remarks. Several Myanmar diplomats abroad have said they are loyal to an alternative underground self-proclaimed government set up by elected lawmakers who were not allowed to take their seats in Parliament when the army staged its coup. Other high-profile Myanmar people have used international platforms to criticize the coup and the new junta running the country. Saturday's bloodshed in Myanmar quickly drew international condemnation, both from diplomatic missions within Myanmar and from abroad.
We need your urgent international help right now." "I want to say for here that, please help Myanmar.
I am deeply be sorry for all the people who have lost their lives," she went on, pausing frequently to fight back tears.
"Today in my country, Myanmar, while I am going to be on this stage, there are so many people dying, more than 100 people died today. In doing so, the leaders involved should not use their power and selfishness to apply," she said. Every citizen of the world wants the prosperity of their country and the peaceful environment. "I deeply feel sorry for the people who have lost their lives on the streets. Yet it was still surprising to see a contestant at an international pageant use the event to in part criticize her own country's leaders. Han Lay had made no secret of her sympathies in a publicity video interview two weeks ago and on her Instagram page, which shows memes and photos from the protest movement in her homeland. As she was speaking news was coming out from across the border in Myanmar that at least 114 people had been killed in the bloodiest day since the Feb. Yangon University student Han Lay made the comments Saturday night at the Miss Grand International pageant held in the Thai capital Bangkok.