more on myanmar coup
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At least four of Ang San Suu Kyi’s most senior economic officials are missing since Myanmar’s February 1 military coup.
A Yangon financier, unburdened by political persuasion, sums up Myanmar’s February military coup.
“It’s a circular firing squad,” he says. “These are incredibly stupid steps. These guys have been watching too much Fox TV.”
The Fox TV jibe riffs at the reason why Myanmar’s military said it cancelled Aung San Suu Kyi’s five-year-old quasi-democracy.
Perhaps inspired by Donald Trump, the generals claimed that a November election, won in a landslide by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), was fraudulent. Hours before Myanmar’s parliament would secure that result, the junta aborted an embryonic democracy they were always reluctant midwives to.
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