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ASEAN has created a rare pathway to help Myanmar move forward
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ASEAN has created a rare pathway to help Myanmar move forward
On February 1, Army trucks and tanks rolled into the streets of Naypyidaw and Yangon, signaling the military’s overthrow of a government in which it had a sizeable share of power. The generals felt insecure with the landslide victory of the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) in the November 2020 elections. They decided to exert full control and terminate the experiment of transition to democracy that their wiser predecessors had initiated in 2010.
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Beauty pageants are notorious for contestants seemingly caring about nothing but world peace and complete harmony . Miss Grand Myanmar Han Lay s response at the Miss Grand pageant in Thailand last week was also you guessed it about world peace. But along with world peace, she also took the opportunity to bring attention to her home country s ongoing democratic struggle and the atrocities committed by the state s military. Today in my country Myanmar . there are so many people dying, she said. Please help Myanmar. We need your urgent international help right now.
Just a week prior, Lay was on the bloody streets of Yangon, Myanmar s largest city where she s also a student at a university protesting against the military and for a democratic revolution. Early in February 2021, when the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy party was in power having won in the November 2020 general elections the military seized control of the state, using
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From Trump to Myanmar: What the new cancel culture is saying: ‘If I don’t win the election, you must cancel the result’ March 5, 2021, 9:34 PM IST
Nayan Chanda is a US-based journalist who writes columns for TOI.
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