No peace in Myanmar 1 year after military takeover
The army takeover in Myanmar a year ago that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi brought a shocking end to the effort to restore democratic rule in the Southeast Asian country after decades of military rule. People opposed the army takeover because they had come to enjoy representative government and liberalization after years of military rule, said David Steinberg, a senior scholar of Asian Studies at Georgetown University. Kept in detention by the military, Suu Kyi has played no active part in these developments. The 76-year-old Suu Kyi has already been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, with the prospect of many more being added. With urban demonstrations mostly reduced to flash mobs to avoid crackdowns, the battle against military rule has largely passed to the countryside, where the badly outgunned local militias carry out guerrilla warfare.
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