Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Myanmar: What has been happening since the 2021 coup?
Myanmar, also called Burma, is a southeast Asian country with a population of 54 million. It became independent from Britain in 1948 but had been under a military regime until 2011. After the 2010 general election, the nation became civilian-controlled, though just nominally. When the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won a majority in both houses in the 2020 general election, the military seized power in a coup on February 1, 2021. There have been protests, resistance, and even attacks on the military, which have left many deaths and casualties on both sides. The military said it would hold a “free and fair” election once the state of emergency is over. But who imposed the state of emergency against the elected government? Also, thousands of Rohingya, Muslim minorities, were killed and more than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh after the army crackdown and genocide in 2017. Then-in-power Aung San Suu Kyi denied such allegations. When will people in Myanmar, including non-Buddhists, ever have peace?
Read the article and learn about what has been happening in Myanmar.
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