Update. It’s no longer a “coup attempt,” it succeeded. Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint have been removed from office and detained. The Tatmadaw, headed by Min Aung Hlaing, are now the head of Myanmar.
Update. It’s no longer a “coup attempt,” it succeeded. Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint have been removed from office and detained. The Tatmadaw, headed by Min Aung Hlaing, are now the head of Myanmar.
I’ll be honest: I don’t really know what to make about Myanmar or Burma or whatever we call it as it’s honestly hard to decipher what’s going on with that country.
There’s what the mainstream media says and there’s the politics and the goings-on behind it all, the actual quality of it.
I hope that I don’t get in trouble for saying any of this. It’s just… hard to know how to approach all this and how to learn more about the subject. I think the problem with Myanmar/Burma is that nobody has really deciphered all the facts about what’s happening on the ground. We know more about, say, Vietnam or even Laos than we do that country.
Don’t worry, I consciously made this place to be a place where people are free to speculate on current world events. So feel free to speculate.
Very well.
That’s exactly why I created this community, to decipher current world events from a socialist perspective. Even if we don’t know all the facts now, we can try to learn them. This is extremely new news, but as more information is added, we may learn more about it. Until then, feel free to debate among yourselves what is going on.
Also, feel free to call it either Myanmar or Burma, or flip flop between both. Aung San Suu Kyi personally said that people are free to call it either, of course, she’s no longer in charge, the Tatmadaw is.