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For the first time in its 75-year history, the military has lost large swathes of territory to ethnic groups.

In mid-January, at a small gathering in a cantonment town in Myanmar, hard line pro-military monk Pauk Kotaw suggested that the countrys junta chief Min Aung Hlaing step down and his deputy take... -January 31, 2024 at 01:55 am EST - MarketScreener

In mid-January, at a small gathering in a cantonment town in Myanmar, hardline pro-military monk Pauk Kotaw suggested that the country’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing step down and his deputy take over. The crowd cheered in agreement, according to videos of the event posted on social media.

In mid-January, at a small gathering in a cantonment town in Myanmar, hard line pro-military monk Pauk Kotaw suggested that the country's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing step down and his deputy take over. The crowd cheered in agreement, according to videos of the event posted on social media. Online, pro-military journalists and bloggers have been similarly direct. "He should...

Min Aung Hlaing's military failures stir up pressure for him to step down

But the military is likely to ‘fight ever more brutally, the closer it comes to defeat’, analysts say, even as ‘pace of liberation quickens’ in Myanmar.

An ultra-nationalist fringe of the Buddhist clergy in Myanmar is demanding that Min Aung Hlaing, the country's military dictator, stand down

January 24, 2024. (Karen Information Center/ Thanlwin Times and editors) Even the personal visit of the Junta Deputy Commander-in-Chief Vice Senior General Soe Win to Hpa-An Township to plead with Border Guard Force (BGF) leaders to continue their role as a proxy militia in Myawaddy, failed to reverse the BGF decision to declare an autonomous zone in Karen State, no longer

Observers say the move diminishes the military’s power and the junta’s influence on ethnic groups.

A challenge from ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks is piling pressure on the loathed coup leader.