Since April the opposition has become more politically organized. They want democracy, not a return to the military rule of the past. On top of this around 2,000 soldiers and police have defected to join the ‘people’s side’. Most people in Myanmar do not accept this claim. In the aftermath of the coup, hundreds of thousands of people – cutting across ethnic, religious, generational, and gendered divides – have engaged in protests and strikes leading to a large Civil Disobedience Movement. The military has claimed that it took power because of electoral fraud and the need to protect its version of ‘disciplined democracy’. She is now facing various charges that could mean her exit from politics. The military itself has been behind the partial democratic opening Myanmar has gone through since 2011 but in the end the top brass of the military could not accept Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued popularity. Following the landslide election by Aung San Suu Kyi and her party NLD in November 2020, Myanmar´s military took power 1 February 2021 after only five years of democratic rule.
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