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One Year On from the Myanmar Coup
The 1 February 2021 coup in Myanmar removed Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government. A broad spectrum of society continues to resist the coup in various ways.
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Richard Horsey assesses the situation and what the future may hold.
What is the situation in Myanmar today?
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing clearly did not anticipate that his power grab would face such strong, determined resistance when he engineered the coup a year ago.
The resistance emerged almost immediately after his junta deposed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, charging her with…