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2 Myanmar is an excellent example of how not to run a country. Given the current state of affairs, a military takeover was inevitable, and the scenario is now a complete disaster. It is no longer Aung San Suu Kyi s game, yet the army also wishes it didn t have such high-risk ambitions. Both are now ensnared as tiny cogs in a contest where they are at best proxies and at worst the main casualties of both internal and external wars. The West is confronting China, and Myanmar is a hopeless battlefield for the time being, still mired in its own ethnic conflict. ....
Kul Chandra Gautam, a Nepali diplomat, is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. (www.kulgautam.org). He is also the author of the recently-published Global Citizen from Gulmi: My Journey from the Hills of Nepal to the Halls of the United Nations Kul Gautam, UNICEF Regional Director for Asia-Pacific meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon in 1998. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 8 2021 (IPS) - The 1 February 2021 coup d’état by Myanmar’s military (Tatmadaw), has been widely condemned by all the world’s democratic leaders, human rights activists and genuine friends of the people of Myanmar around the globe. In an unusual manner for the world’s top diplomat, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has gone so far as to urge the world community to make sure that Myanmar’s military coup fails. ....
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 6:59 am By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand By seizing power, Myanmar s new coup leader Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has protected his murky financial investments and the military s domination, but some of his incoming international cash flow might now be up for grabs. Sr. Gen. Min spent much of his military career as a quiet, publicity-shy officer steadily promoted to higher positions before grabbing absolute power at dawn on February 1, six months before his mandatory retirement on his 65th birthday July 3. Among other goals, Sr. Gen. Min apparently hopes he has protected himself, his family, and military colleagues from possible investigation over ....
February 1, detained internationally disgraced civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other recently elected officials, and declared a one-year State of Emergency because voting was marred by terrible fraud. at dawn six months before his term expires in June prompting speculation he may have been motivated to protect his extensive, murky financial investments and block any weakening of the military s political domination. ruling and a State of Emergency would be enforced for one year, starting immediately. election which was held on the 8th of November were found to have huge discrepancies and the Union Election Commission failed to settle this ....