If he has the courage to exercise his constitutional rights as president, U Myint Swe has two opportunities left to avoid going down in Myanmar’s history as a villain.
By banishing the State Counselor to a secret location and rejecting ASEAN’s envoy, Min Aung Hlaing is making his despised predecessors look like masters of statecraft.
The military’s crude messaging is a flashback to the discredited propaganda of previous regimes and only underscores the fact that nothing it says can be believed.