How time changes things.  The sign here from Amnesty International calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, who now has fallen as an icon for democracy because of her complicity in the treatment of the Rohingya ethnic minority.

The protest was sparked by an uprising of monks, one of the great sources of power in many countries, against the Myanmar military dictatorship.  Video footage of the monks being violently attacked shocked the world, and as often happens a temporary mass social movement was formed.

It was an inspiring protest to attend, people dressed in red walking along with monks holding signs calling for human rights.  I never knew there were so many, apparently Burmese, people in London.

When I later went to a pro Palestinian march though, but I didn't see the monks there, nor the people from Myanmar.  In fairness to them I don't remember seeing large groups of Palestinians at the Myanmar protest either.  I've seen Black and Indigenous people openly question the motives of white people who march in support of them, like they can't understand why someone would care passionately about the rights of people who don't share their particular identity.

We are not going to change the world by being split into individual identity groups.  It is by recognising our common humanity, that a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere as MLK said so clearly, that we will make a mass movement that can bring lasting change.