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The Root Causes of Myanmar’s Coup Go Deeper I Asia

7 Mar 2022

While the catalyst for social media platforms and online-news outlets, the military’s takeover was the November 2020 assertion of control over telecommunication elections, the structural issues within the 2008 operators, and the application of “extraction constitution, the NLD itself, and Myanmar’s and interception technology to surveil” the regional neighborhood all played key roles in people.14. [...] In the run-up to the 2015 politicians and civilian-led government” election, the NLD shunned bids by the paved the way for the military to finish off members of the “88 generation,” largely the nascent political transition in Myanmar. [...] This new politics is being animated geo-strategic partners and allies in the region, by the dreams of the future and motivated by the the United States will likely run into trouble with creation of a new nation that inclusively represents the autocratic regimes of the region in the long all diverse groups of the country and completely run. [...] As the future better than the history of the past,” and role of the United States is crucial for democratic those dreams have been increasingly catalyzing a revival in the region, so too is democracy for new politics in the current struggle.67 the long-term interests of Washington. [...] formally scrapped the military drafted 2008 constitution, which firmly enshrined the military’s In the current gloomy domestic situation in prerogatives and imposed structural constraints Myanmar, the young generation of digital natives on the political development of the country.68 On are playing an encouraging role for the revival the other hand, the National Unity Consultative of democracy in t.
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