Myanmar's Dictators Have Always Relied on a Brutal Secret Police Force
Military intelligence has operated under a variety of names during a number of different dictatorships, but its terror tactics remain the same.
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Military intelligence has operated under a variety of names during a number of different dictatorships, but its terror tactics remain the same.
The current regime faces an unprecedented war in the Burmese homeland and its ruinous policies must be testing the patience of its crony financial backers.
Independent outlets have been shut down or forced out, while the junta cultivates dozens of mouthpieces at home.
Successive dictators have appointed trusted confidants to lead their spy agencies, which act to entrench military rule through brutal repression of the population.
Once feared across the country, the regime’s military intelligence office is now believed to be much less capable than before.