From the article: A helpful and interesting take from a reddit comment in this thread
From the article:
Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders.
Troops are patrolling the streets and a night-time curfew is in force, with a one-year state of emergency declared.
US President Joe Biden raised the threat of new sanctions, with the UN and UK also condemning the coup.
The army alleges the recent landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi's party was marred by fraud. She urged supporters to "protest against the coup".
In a letter written in preparation for her impending detention, she said the military's actions would put the country back under a dictatorship.
A helpful and interesting take from a reddit comment in this thread
The military dictatorship only went away in name in 2010. It forced a compromise with the civilian government where it demanded 25% of the seats in Parliament. To everyone, it was an open secret that the junta had the ability to take over at any time if it wanted to, since the civilian government never had true authority over the armed forces.
This is terrible. Myanmar's military bears the brunt of the responsibility for the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims. I cannot possibly believe that they would do a better job running the...
This is terrible. Myanmar's military bears the brunt of the responsibility for the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims. I cannot possibly believe that they would do a better job running the country than the democratically-elected NLD (do note that the main criticism leveled at Aung San Suu Kyi and her government is that she didn't condemn the military's actions enough), or can be trusted to run a free and open election in a year.
In my middle school, we studied Myanmar extensively as a contemporary model of a country undergoing modernization and a democratic transformation. I'm sad they're reversing course.
From the article:
A helpful and interesting take from a reddit comment in this thread
This is terrible. Myanmar's military bears the brunt of the responsibility for the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims. I cannot possibly believe that they would do a better job running the country than the democratically-elected NLD (do note that the main criticism leveled at Aung San Suu Kyi and her government is that she didn't condemn the military's actions enough), or can be trusted to run a free and open election in a year.
In my middle school, we studied Myanmar extensively as a contemporary model of a country undergoing modernization and a democratic transformation. I'm sad they're reversing course.