Resilience amid ruins

The civic responsibility displayed in the post-protest clean up campaign must get continuity.

The nationwide violent demonstrations on the second day of Gen Z movement, triggered by the state’s brutal treatment of young protesters a day prior, reduced over 300 office buildings of local governments across the country to ashes. Hundreds of machinery of municipalities, including vehicles and office equipment, were torched indiscriminately by unruly mobs. In the absence of basic necessities for office operation and with government staffers finding themselves reeling under chaos, fear and uncertainty, vital day-to-day services were halted.