Myanmar’s junta suffers startling defeats
The armed opposition is growing more unified. The West should help it.
IT DID NOT take long before the world’s gaze drifted from Myanmar after, in February 2021, its army chief, Min Aung Hlaing, carried out a brutal coup. Western hopes for Myanmar’s democratic future had been vested in the figure of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy. When the general threw her and her recently re-elected government into jail, those hopes appeared to be conclusively snuffed out.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The junta is losing”
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