Contemporary · Southeast Asia · Politics
2021
Myanmar coup
February 1, 2021
Hours before parliament was to convene, the Tatmadaw arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and her cabinet and declared a state of emergency. A decade of fragile civilian rule ended in a morning. Resistance committees and ethnic armies took to the jungle. By year's end Myanmar was again at war with itself.
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