Oklahoma Joe: Coup illustrates democracy’s power, fragility By: Joe Dorman Guest Columnist April 12, 2021
Joe Hight
One photo can make an impact, even taken from far away.
You probably don’t know about Launglon Township, more than 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Oklahoma City. You may know little about Myanmar, the southeastern Asian country formerly called Burma.
In the Reuters photo, you see a long line of protesters walking the township’s streets. Among them you see signs that have red backgrounds with these words in bold white lettering:
“We Want Democracy.”
“Anger has swept Myanmar in the past two months over the coup that brought an abrupt end to a brief era of democratic and economic reform and international integration that followed the military’s oppressive 1962-2011 rule. … ,” the story said.