PEACE CALL FAILS: Two-pronged strategy with scorched-earth policy getting the junta nowhere

From the outset it was quite clear that Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing's peace call on 22 April was a piecemeal intervention to lift the tremendous military and political pressures on him and his coup-maker regime to drive a wedge between the ethnic-democratic forces, rather than to strive for genuine peace, reconciliation and political settlement.

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