No one is allowed to say "We are starving"

Before the popular uprising in September 2007, there were a few people holding signs "please try to bring down the commodity prices". Those protesters who demonstrated alone or small groups were arrested and apparently tortured in notorious prisons. The most famous activist is Ko Htin Kyaw who started solo protest and small group protest; he is now believed to be in notorious Insein prison, apparently being tortured severely.

According to a well-known social and political activist U Win Naing, there are at least 150,000 people having only one meal a day in Yangon alone.