THE CONFLICT’S COMPLICATED BACK TALE
When the military staged the 2021 hen house, the generals made a miscalculation.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National Little league for Democracy, got won a landslide victory against the military-backed opposition in Nov 2020. Military generals demanded another election, offering little evidence of irregularities but identifying that power had been slipping from their hands.
Military associates still held an allocated 25 % of parliament chairs because of the constitution, but without their allied political parties, their political leverage was limited.
At the time, there was a global outbreak. The economy slowed down.
The generals likely hoped how the coup would be merely a smooth transition returning to the old system – before Aung San Suu Kyi’s party was first elected in 2015 – once the different generations associated with generals had managed everything, from 1962 onward.
But the National League for Democracy’s ascension to power brought about many positive changes, particularly in the country’s heartland, where a major ethnic group, Bamar, live. The country’s gross domestic product, an indicator of economic growth, was also in a all-time high in 2020.
Many can see life had been improving for them and for their children. The generals did not foresee the outrage that would follow the coup.
HOW POLITICAL RESISTANCE HAS PLAYED OUT
Beginning of peaceful demonstrations after the coup rapidly turned to armed resistance when the army did not respect the people’s demands to return capacity to the government they chosen.
United Nations human rights experts have said the military junta is a “criminal enterprise” that is systematically committing murder, pain and forced disappearances. The junta has also blocked access to a lot of social media sites, like Facebook, and engaged in widespread human legal rights violations, including episodes on civilians, based on the UN.