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Myanmar community in South Korea stages protest against military coup
Posted : 2021-02-11 08:02
Updated : 2021-02-11 09:50
Members of the Myanmarese community in South Korea protest against the military coup in the Southeast Asian country, near the Embassy of Myanmar in Seoul s Yongsan District, Feb. 5. After the military seized power and occupied the country s capital Nay Pyi Taw, the country s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other members of the National League for Democracy were detained by troops. Courtesy of Soe Moe Thu
By Jung Da-min
When large crowds were participating in demonstrations on the streets across Myanmar to protest the military coup there, Myanmarese communities in other countries also rose up against the military regime.
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Suu Kyi became Myanmar’s de facto leader in 2015. (The constitution prevents her from assuming the title of president.) She continues to enjoy widespread domestic support, but CFR’s Joshua Kurlantzick says she has little to show for her time in power, as she tried to pacify the military by defending its abuses against the Rohingya and by restricting press freedoms. “She failed to strengthen democracy in recent years and create democratic bulwarks,” Kurlantzick writes.
Was 2011 a turning point?
Starting in 2011, President Thein Sein spearheaded a series of reforms, including granting amnesty to political prisoners, relaxing media censorship, and implementing economic policies to encourage foreign investment. And in 2015, Myanmar held its first nationwide, multiparty elections considered to be the freest and fairest elections in decades since the country’s transition away from military rule. Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD party won a landslide victory, securing a majorit
The Globe and Mail John Packer Published February 6, 2021
Turns out the “democratization” of the Union of Myanmar was a charade at best.
Having already written its constitution to suit itself in 2008, the Tatmadaw (as the Armed Forces are known) ripped it up on Feb. 1. In a swift, telegraphed and thus-far bloodless coup, Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing declared himself “state leader,” installed a dozen cronies as ministers, and appointed a retired lieutenant-general as his puppet President. In doing so, the Tatmadaw issued a formal statement asserting that they were acting to preserve “democratic norms,” but arresting the entire civilian government, the sitting President, leading MPs and representatives of civil society sure is a funny way of showing it.
Explained: How Burma became Myanmar after a military coup three decades ago
The Myanmar military
grabbed power in a coup on Monday (February 1) – the third time in the nation’s history since its independence from British rule in 1948.
After the last such takeover in 1988, the armed forces went on to make a decision that would remain controversial for decades: changing the country’s name.
How Burma became Myanmar
When British imperialists annexed what is today’s Myanmar during the 19th century, they called it Burma after the dominant Burman (Bamar) ethnic group, and administered it as a province of colonial India. This arrangement continued until 1937, when Burma was separated from British India and made a separate colony.