Support for Myanmar’s Junta Only Prolongs the Country’s Conflict

The world should recognize that engagement with the coup regime simply stiffens its futile drive to consolidate power.

Publication Type: Analysis and Commentary

Myanmar’s coup regime, whose principal strategy for dealing with the country’s resistance movement is blunt, unrelenting brutality, benefits from three misconceptions prevalent in the international community: First, that consolidation of the military’s power is essentially inevitable; second, that absence of the generals’ regime would lead to a power vacuum and failed state; and third, that long-term military control is preferable to the status quo and would lead to stability. People march in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, […]

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