[antonia]

The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.
Using a prop like that makes it seem, even more, as a set up,a staged scene.

There is nothing in that picture which convinces me of dire need. They have the time to go protest, they have the time and the materials to make decent signs. Other photos of the destruction; are of homes built with woven palm fronds in to mats that are hung on frames. leaning alarmingly, but are not so heavy as to be that difficult to fix. Clean water, and clean up and basic food is what they may need.

[JerseyHighlander]

That is a photo of an expat community of refugees of ethnic genocide, taken thousands of miles away from Burma.

They are like any other group of expats and erfugees in the world who exercise speech rights to protest and demonstrate.