Myanmar three years after the coup: where is the country heading?

What is it about?

On February 1, 2021, the military staged a coup in Myanmar against the democratically elected government of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK), whose party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won a landslide victory in the November 2020 election. On the day of the constituent session of the newly elected parliament, State Counselor ASSK, State President Win Myint and other high-ranking parliamentarians were arrested, a state of emergency was declared and the internet was shut down. ASSK has since been sentenced to more than thirty years in prison for various alleged offenses; the sentence was partially - but not seriously - reduced in early August 2023. It is clear that Myanmar's generals want to influence relations with the outside world - or at least with ASEAN - through ASSK. As the daughter of Aung San, the "Father of the Nation", ASSK, also known as the "Lady", stands for the democratic awakening in Myanmar like no other person and has been responsible for Myanmar's civilian government affairs since 2015/16 as a State Counsellor - a position created especially for her due to the restrictive constitution of 2008.

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