Myanmar’s new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday’s coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
https://t.co/xxrkxqIuEK- The Associated Press (@AP)
February 4, 2021 From Wednesday night (3 Feb) onwards, social media
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The military for the most part were still the movers and shakers in the country even pre-coup. They were automatically granted a quarter of seats in parliament, had an effective veto on constitutional changes, and held the most important ministerial portfolios. Military spending was still one of the biggest areas of the government (more so than many other areas of civic development), and it was well known that important deals were always 'negotiated' through the junta.
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this is what I keep coming back to. it's hard not to feel a certain way about ASSK because she's indelibly linked and at least in some ways responsible for the genocide (I need to do more reading to get a more clear understanding of how much control she really had over the situation). but I can't see any way that it doesn't escalate and get worse from here.
that to me is the irrefutable fact of what's happening here, and the aspect that I wish more people were focusing on, instead of blue checks on twitter making it about America somehow.
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