Why Myanmar s coup may be a major step backwards
Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
14:26 Aung San Suu Kyi s detention undermines the fragile coalition that was steering Myanmar through a perilous period
Analysis: last year s elections showed both distaste for any political role by the military and the ongoing popularity of Aung San Suu Kyi
Just before the newly elected members of Myanmar s parliament were due to be sworn in today, the military detained the country s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi; the president, Win Myint; and other key figures from the elected ruling party, the National League for Democracy.
The military later announced it had taken control of the country for 12 months and declared a state of emergency. This is a coup d etat, whether the military calls it that or not.
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Nicholas Farrelly is Professor and Head of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania.
After graduating from the ANU in 2003 with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Asian Studies, he completed his M.Phil and D.Phil at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2006, while a graduate student, Nicholas founded New Mandala, a website which has gone on to become the preeminent public forum in Southeast Asian Studies. After returning to Canberra from Oxford, he was appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.
Since 2011, he held a number of key academic positions in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, including as a Deputy Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and as Director of the ANU Myanmar Research Centre, an institution he helped establish in 2015. From 2017-2019 he was Associate Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific responsible for