How Myanmar Destroyed Itself

Yes…. I live in myanmar 😢

So the conflict in Myanmar is decades old and is between one group versus the rest of the country (similar to the recent but deadly Ethiopian civil war in 2022). Unlike the Ethiopian civil war, the group targeted in Myanmar isn’t being targeted for holding on to there guns, but because they are a minority group different from the rest of the country (it’s the Muslim majority group versus everyone else).

သူပုန်ပေါင်းစုံနိုင်ငံဖြစ်နေပြီ သူပုန်ဆိုတာနိုင်ငံကိုဖျက်ဆီးနေတာပါ သူ့တို့မရှိရင်အေးချမ်းပါတယ်

ဟုတ်ပါတယ်။ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ဖြစ်နေပါတယ်။ လူတိုင်းဒုက္ခရောက်နေကြတယ်။ကုန်ပစ္စည်းတွေလည်းရှားပါးနေတယ်😢

Please help us we need international help.

Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

One thing people should know is that part of the reason why the Tatmadaw most likely acted so late with the coup was Suu Kyi and her fellow civilians lost a significant amount of international recognition due to inaction, at least, over the Rohingya issue.

The Gaza supporters love shouting the G word vs Israel, but before the coup in Feb. 2021 the military of the government of Myanmar, with Suu Kyi as its de facto leader, either pursued or allowed actual large scale violence on the Rohingya. You do not have massive displacement like that for anything less than organized, systemic violence.

Suu Kyi's inaction, and even seeming agreement with the G-cide of the Rohingya even led to her being stripped of various awards and honors from Western institutions.

As the face of the opposition to the Junta, they probably thought that, with Suu Kyi being a pariah herself over the Rohingya issue, that it would be safe to take her out of power.

In a way, they're right: this has barely gotten attention in the West, so much less than the Palestinians are getting. I wonder why?

So now there's an outright civil war.

Don't even ask why ASEAN hasn't acted. You have to understand: we're not the EU. Not even that. It's more a club than anything, although citizens or ASEAN countries enjoy Visa-less travel within the organisation for a limited time.

In 2007 Saffron Revolution, the monks and citizens were cracked down as in 1988. Live ammunitions into crowds , night raids and executions.

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Struggle for power after colonialism is always a big issue

This is plagiarized from the CFR’s article on the conflict

Despite some factual errors here and there and some significant events overlooked, this is still one of the best and most accurate videos I've seen explaining the situation here in Myanmar.

I appreciate your hard work to attempt to unravel this mess and present it in a way that allows the average person to gain a reasonable understanding of our plight.

You pronounced Karen incorrectly. It is pronounced the same as Karenni without the -ni. Good coverage overall.

Wait! PDF is not a terrorist group or something. It has been organized form Myanmar people and you miss the point to mention the military is a terrorist group. And you are mentioning it over and over as a civil war and you are just saying haphazardly not knowing what the military did nationwide. I also wanna say that we are fighting back the military coup and trying to restore DEMOCRACY. Just keep that in your mind and change the way you guys think about Myanmar.

All they had to do was share.

The image at 3:02 of the Ryingar people. Do you have a source please? Was watching this on my phone and wondered wether it was a photograph or painting

I had a bamar gf, she kinda explained to me the same as you, kudos bro, this topic is very uncovered so, its nice to see real knowledge regarding the beautiful and (probably) cursed mynamar

The US Civil War was probably the MOST 2-sided Civil War in history

Sounds like Thailand (Prayut) took some tactics from Myanmar to put him and the army in the politics too.

Fun fact: "Myan" is a synonym for "Bamar". The name "Myanmar" is no more inclusive than "Burma" was. Junta sleight-of-hand. The Tatmadaw is soullessly sadistic, pure evil.