WASHINGTON - The US cannot afford to treat the grave setback in Myanmar as a distant distraction of little consequence to its larger interests in Asia, a report by the Myanmar Study Group has warned, one year after the Feb 1, 2021, coup d'etat in the country.
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It has been more than 10 months since Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup. Its soldiers have since fought with urban protestors and rural militias using brutal violence. Activists accuse the military of killing more than 1300, and detaining more than 11,000. The UN on Monday called for an investigation into a new massacre that the U.S. described as “barbaric.” Nick Schifrin reports.
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
BANGKOK (AP) In sentencing Myanmar’s iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison , the country’s generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics.