In sentencing Myanmar’s iconic civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the Burmese generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics, but that does not mean that the Southeast Asian nation is back to square one in its stop-start efforts to move toward democracy.
A younger generation that came of age as the military began loosening its grip and has tasted some freedoms is well-positioned to carry on the struggle.
The Feb. 1 coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government from power, throwing the country into turmoil, but erasing the gains of a decade of opening up has proved more

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