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A year after Myanmar’s coup, the military still lacks control and the country is sliding into an intractable civil war

  • Written by Nicholas Farrelly, Professor and Head of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
A year after Myanmar’s coup, the military still lacks control and the country is sliding into an intractable civil warmyan

In the year since Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s prospects have deteriorated sharply, with untold misery for millions: deaths, arrests, detention, sickness, displacement, poverty and trauma.

The military’s misjudgement of the popular mood means the coup leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his...

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