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Related: [0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/myanmar-democracy-rohingya/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/myanmar-democracy-rohin... [1]: https://ww

by clcuc 6y ago

Related: [0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/myanmar-democracy-rohingya/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/myanmar-democracy-rohin... [1]: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-02/militaerputsch-myanmar-festnahme-regierungschefin-wahlbetrugsvorwuerfe https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-02/militaerputsch-m... [2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-a... [3]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-alarmed-by-reports-of-military-actions-in-myanmar-white-house-says-11612145833?mod=hp_lead_pos2 https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-alarmed-by-reports-of-mi... [4]: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-31/myanmar-military-coup https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-31/myanma... [5]: https://ctee.com.tw/news/global/411523.html https://ctee.com.tw/news/global/411523.html

everybodyknows 6y ago
From [0], dated January 16, 2020: >Aung San Suu Kyi could not have ordered the military to stop their operations against the Rohingya, and it was legitimate to fear that the military would reverse the transition toward democracy ... Now we see just how little control she had over the generals.
- refurb 6y ago
  You're quoting the first part of that article, but ignoring the entire conclusion - she was a willing enabler of the genocide. "But now that the military establishment has moved to accommodate the Burmese pro-democracy movements in the country, oppression of so-called Muslim foreigners like the supposedly Bengali Rohingya is perfectly acceptable along the path toward building an exclusionary Buddhist nation-state."
  - apsec112 6y ago
    This coup shows how meaningless that "accommodation" really was - no major break with military policy would have been tolerated anyway.
    - notsureaboutpg 6y ago
      But ASSK was a Novel laureate and revered in the West and all precisely because she did not only do what the military would tolerate all the time. I totally see why she did what she did and understand in her shoes maybe many of us might have made the same choice, but we should all remember the entire reason for her elevated profile outside Myanmar is that she had in the past refused to simply abide by whatever the military wanted and she claimed often that she could not stand idly by and had to act when she protested for democracy.

by clcuc 6y ago

everybodyknows 6y ago

From [0], dated January 16, 2020: >Aung San Suu Kyi could not have ordered the military to stop their operations against the Rohingya, and it was legitimate to fear that the military would reverse the transition toward democracy ... Now we see just how little control she had over the generals.

refurb 6y ago
You're quoting the first part of that article, but ignoring the entire conclusion - she was a willing enabler of the genocide. "But now that the military establishment has moved to accommodate the Burmese pro-democracy movements in the country, oppression of so-called Muslim foreigners like the supposedly Bengali Rohingya is perfectly acceptable along the path toward building an exclusionary Buddhist nation-state."
- apsec112 6y ago
  This coup shows how meaningless that "accommodation" really was - no major break with military policy would have been tolerated anyway.
  - notsureaboutpg 6y ago
    But ASSK was a Novel laureate and revered in the West and all precisely because she did not only do what the military would tolerate all the time. I totally see why she did what she did and understand in her shoes maybe many of us might have made the same choice, but we should all remember the entire reason for her elevated profile outside Myanmar is that she had in the past refused to simply abide by whatever the military wanted and she claimed often that she could not stand idly by and had to act when she protested for democracy.