Myanmar, The Coup & the Chaos Explained: How Did Myanmar End Up Like This? - TLDR News

[@nadialukman1921]

It also worth to note that Myanmar military not only control the political power. Myanmar have a few pro military company who control the mining activity and etc. So they don't have to worry about activity fund as well. At this point, Myanmar situation seems bleak. Be strong Myanmar!

[@Grimfang999]

Citizens: we want democracy! Military: Fine, but you can only vote for us. Citizens: we vote for democracy! Military: sorry you voted wrong, try again. Citizens: No, we are voting for democracy. Military: yes, and you voted wrong. Citizens: RISE UP FOR DEMOCRACY! Military: WHY WONT YOU ACCEPT OUR TOTALLY DEMOCRATIC COUP?

[@yam2871]

Lol this is so accurate it made me laugh 😂😂😂

[@yam2871]

Ah I've been waiting for this from TLDR! Been a long fan, but thank you so much for covering this. - From Myanmar

[@patriarch2603]

Same!

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

“U Nu” sounds like a metaphor for Myanmar.

[@elliotwatson3754]

LMAO

[@kyawya312]

@ "U" is an honorific like "Mr." and "Nu" is his name.

[@BloodfelX]

Petition to change Myanmar's name to "Ah Sh**, Here We Go Again"

[@thegoldengamer9315]

Nu u

[@lokilynn6542]

@ Nu means soft, delicate, tender in burmese.

[@Duncan23]

I honestly think the only way real democracy will succeed in Burma is with a UN military intervention. The Burmese military have too much power for the will of the people to succeed alone. It's not the ideal solution but it's the only realistic option.

[@GlasgowCelticBhoy]

I'm a person that thinks war should be the final option. But with Myanmar, I think you are right. There doesn't appear to be any other way. I feel so sorry for the Burmese people.

[@yam2871]

I think the best option would be for China, India and ASEAN nations to come together and stop businesses with the military junta. This would cut off their income/money. I say this because Western imposed sanctions do very little when many investments are from China, India and other ASEAN countries. Despite saying this, I'm pretty sure there's a "no political intervention" policy in ASEAN. So I don't know how much I can expect from that. The army being sent to Myanmar would lead to the country being a war zone, China definitely won't stand still if US were to send troops to a country literally south of them. Yet, what most Burmese people want right now is for anyone with weapons and arms to swipe away Burmese military (we now call them terrorists). This is how desperate we are. There are some saying "If we have to fall from war, we don't care as long as we can uproot the military and pull them down together." Just giving my two cents as a Burmese person. Edit: spelling errors

[@ez9566]

@@yam2871 I totally agree, but with the veto rights of china and russia it doesnt look so good. I think the only way to resolve this peacefully is to take the power from the military, throughout combined global sanctions and continuing protests

[@RWKIN]

I'be already started on my Abrams.)))

[@thelegend_doggo1062]

Unless there’s some sort of pro democracy movement inside the Myanmar military, I think you right.

[@FRAMANDUDE]

1:25 A British reaction to spilling tea

[@thegoldengamer9315]

Lmao

[@Paranoid_Found]

Civil war, warlords, separatists, and military juntas have unfortunately plagued Myanmar from the get-go.

[@maungpyoolay]

I know what yu are up to. You know you are China. You know you don't help us.

[@sakiaung]

@@maungpyoolay Stop accusing innocent people, its not the chinese people, its the government

[@NyiPyaeSone]

@@maungpyoolay please don't blame chinese people for what happened it's the ccp not the innocent citizens (I'm from Myanmar btw)

[@durianjaykin3576]

Sauce for the loli pic?

[@maungpyoolay]

@@sakiaung I agree

[@patriarch2603]

I can’t thank you enough as a tdlr watcher from Myanmar. I was busy watching us and uk tdlr. Thanks again!

[@handbanana4899]

Duncan said it below, but for Myanmar/Burma's own sake I truly hope a more democratic country puts down their disgrace of a military by force. It's not pretty and it's not ideal at all for anyone involved, but it's becoming incraesingly hard to see any way for peaceful protest to make any positive change.

[@looseygoosey1349]

No one is going to help. No one wants war and because of this Pandemic that is still going on no one wants to spend money they dont have because of the state of the Economy world wide. The US will not intervene, most likely. Good Luck trying to get the UN to do anything when its more powerful members Veto everything.

[@Andrew36597]

1:26 ironic that the name of the first democratic president is the same reaction the military have to free democracy in 2021

[@kebabson3797]

It wasn’t a free election watch the video

[@R1chking]

@@kebabson3797 I think you misunderstood what he was saying

[@deanjordan6053]

LMFAO-

[@thutaaung3847]

Oo no

[@chris7263]

I'm going to think about this every time I hear about controversy over appointing some ex-general to a civilian position too soon after he left the military. This is why you keep the military quarantined away from civilian government; once they get in, how can you ever get them out? They have the guns.

[@ameyas7726]

and tanks and planes and drones and wmds..

[@josephburchanowski4636]

"once they get in, how can you ever get them out? They have the guns." Civil war.

[@chris7263]

@@josephburchanowski4636 yeah, but that requires the other side to have reasonably comparable fire power.

[@archiebellega956]

A lot. But generally it had to do with the general themselves. In Indonesia up until 1998 military is part of government (especially as Suharto is part of military) however after the 1998 reform they lost their legislation power without any bloodshed (there's bloodshed leading to reform, but that was to oust Suharto more than the military themselves), because the higher ups were all agree with it. It also had to do with the way Indonesian and Myanmar's military org differs, as Myanmar's military is essentially self-funding orgs (they had tons of companies and stuff to keep them afloat) while Indo's rely on govt money, so they're not really able to oust the govt.

[@swamhtet3664]

You forgot to mention Than Shwe, who succeeded Saw Maung and ruled Myanmar from 1992 until 2011.

[@kasper7203]

Strange how America is pro democracy in Myanmar.. But not Iran.. Where they have opposed the democratic government ever since they took control away from their monarchy.

[@ahmadsolehyn295]

Answer is Oil. Iran had alot of potential Oil

[@Duncan23]

Calling Iran a democracy is extremely questionable. They have an unelected supreme leader...

[@chris7263]

@@ahmadsolehyn295 that's kind of off target. Iran has relatively less oil than a lot of countries in the area. What they do have is a lot of influence in the middle east, and an ability to create conflict that might disrupt the US access to oil in the overall region.

[@ahmadsolehyn295]

@@chris7263 the history is that Britain had control in the area in the 20th century. But the people of Iran wanted independence like other british colony and they manage to get it and installed their own democracy. Due to britain wanted to control iran's oil, it wanted iran back. Both countries, iran and britain, asked US for aid. But US sided with british and they overthrew Iran's democratic government with a monarchy/dictatorship that is allies with britain and US. Thus, Britain and US got Iran's oil rigs. But after awhile, there was islamic revolt in the country which overthrew the monarchy to the government of today's Iran. The currebt government is quite hostile to US, thus US isn't very fancy with Iranians. That's why i said Oil. Because it was one of the main reason US had staged a coup on a democratic country. However, the Iran's government now is not full democratic due to the people unable to vote for their Main Leader but they can vote for a "president". You are not wrong tho. It could be another reason why US is still hostile to Iran

[@kasper7203]

@@Duncan23 that would be similar to claiming the US is not a democracy because it has an electoral college. Besides we can definitely say Iran is now more democratic than what it was under the puppet monarchy controlled by the US and Britain

[@AlvarVaara]

I love your every channel, but I am sorry that I can't be patriot. I just don't have money now

[@kasper7203]

Same buddy.. Maybe one day we will have money and I am sure TLDR will still be here by then.

[@BloodfelX]

I'm with you there, bro. o7

[@ervandrafadhlil403]

Hopw myanmar get well soon , from a fellow ASEAN country

[@iceteasos]

thanks

[@Pancakiii]

I naively thought I knew the gist of the Myanmar coup already, seeing as I watched all your videos covering it and some and my local news. But with the history you provided, it's putting it in a very different, and frankly more grim, light. Thanks, TLDR!

[@Epicbird-hb5eg]

It’s finally here

[@kim2894]

Myanmar military: lets open up elections, our army backed party confirm will win! Myanmar electorate: lol nope *votes for NLD* Myanmar military: *cocks gun* shame, shame...

[@jantala3243]

your vids are the highlight of my day

[@Mrfizzly]

Stuff like this is always weird. Because you would think the people in the army have family who they would want a better life and protect yet they do stuff like this...

[@command_unit7792]

The Army is built upon a wierd mix between the british and the Japanese imperial army and is 100% volunteer force.

[@sirBrouwer]

The thing is do to them being in the army they do have a (slightly) better life then out of it. It gives relative stability being the ingroup. You want to protect your ingroup and if that means attacking other in the outgroup so be it. If someone from the ingroup (the army) sides with the other side they are seen as a traitor and he/she and his/her family will pay for it. That is how they keep you inside the army. both loyalty to and fear from the same group. If you want to break that you would need to have a big enough group again to be effective enough to make others doubt.

[@Drecon84]

The people who actually make the decisions probably have their families well provided for. That's usually how this works. That said, I hardly know anything about the situation, so I'm just speculating.

[@royce9018]

most militaries have aid directly for families. On site housing, military only hospitals and such. So being the significant other, or child, of military members has a ton of benefits as well.

[@khantzawhtet6896]

Hi, TLDR thank you for a very detailed history of my country. U see we are all fighting this one last time for the greater good of all religions and communities from getting torment from the monsters.

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

including the Rohingya?

[@harrylong2796]

eyy i'm in the vid Thanks for this dude, amazing video as always

[@TheLocalLt]

This was missing a few key points: first of all the military is very unusual in that the leadership is leftist-leaning, and the country was one of the only Marxist military dictatorships in history from 1962-88. Usually of course the army is a force for aristocratic Classicalism but the Ne Win and his associates in the Burmese military had largely started off as Communist rebels against the Japanese and British. In 1988 when the uprising happened, Ne Win quit and the military ended Socialism and turned the country Classicalist, though they still leaned heavily towards Communist China for support. The protesters however wanted the military totally gone from power, and thus continued demonstrating. But the new Classicalist junta cracked down even harder than Ne Win had, this is why it’s inaccurate to show Myanmar as a democracy between 1988-90, as thousands of students were killed by the still-CCP-friendly new junta, which was Classicalist on paper but was largely composed of Ne Win’s old Communist buddies. The military continued to hold power during the 1990 election and simply never gave it up after they lost. All the events since then, including the last few weeks, all happened under this same backdrop, with Burma still stuck in this very rare and unusual situation: a still left-leaning pro-CCP military, against a conservative pro-America democratic opposition, which is the complete opposite of how politics usually works. For this reason Myanmar is one of the most unusual situations and helps explains why, among other things, the student groups favor the colonial name “Burma”, while the military favors “Myanmar”, again in most countries this would be the reversed.

[@awijaya2116]

'Pro-CCP' military is only true in the sense that there's no other foreign organization they've any ties with, considering the PRC has supplied arms to multiple ethnic separatist groups in Myanmar in the past. There's been indicators that the PRC leadership was opposed to the coup (it's logical, too), but now has to choose between 2 bad options. Denounce coup and lose all of their investments in the country or support coup to protect investments, but increasing regional instability (since the opposition will find it harder to un-coup the government now) as a result. (I mean, the third option is Myanmar gets Yugoslavia'd into a half-dozen wartorn mountainous jungle shitholes, but that's clearly the outcome everyone wants to avoid) Agreed on everything else you mentioned though.

[@charlesmadre5568]

Interesting analysis, although I have trouble understanding what exactly about the Tatmadaw can be described as "left-leaning" while I have trouble what exactly about the opposition NLD can be described as "conservative" in the traditional western understanding of the terms.

[@awijaya2116]

@@charlesmadre5568 Tatmadaw’s roots are the Burmese Independence Army, which had communist leanings. That holds true to today. A lot of their messaging is pseudo-communist in nature, for instance. The NLD is a big tent, for basically anti-Tatmadaw factions. So while there may be some ‘liberal democrats’ (in the transatlantic sense, not the aussie or japanese one) in it, most of the NLD will be conservative (since Myanmar itself is a largely conservative nation).

[@charlesmadre5568]

@@awijaya2116 I see, so the Tatmadaw (and its political wing USDP) is more left-wing in rhetoric rather than actual policy then? I wonder how the NLD has actually governed though in the past 5 years (obviously in areas that the military would allow).

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

@@awijaya2116 They are not leftists. They are right wingers who don't support progressiveism

[@rudraveermandal3474]

I love every TLDR video.

[@NativeVsColonial]

India should get involved and help Myanmar re-liberate from domestic rogue military oppression Myanmar should not underplay India's potential, India helped liberate Bangladesh from Pakistani rogue military oppression in 1971, and now the same happening in Myanmar.

[@juve9el182]

It’s completely different scenario from India helping Bangladesh because it was under India’s domain which Burma clearly isn’t,India just can’t walk inside another country and librate it,foreign policy and politics doesn’t works like that child.

[@NativeVsColonial]

@@juve9el182 You know nothing.

[@awijaya2116]

@@NativeVsColonial And apparently, neither do you. India could liberate Bangladesh because Bengali separatism unified the anti-Pakistani forces in Bangladesh. There's no such unifying ideology in Myanmar. You have the Tatmadaw governing the Bamar-majority core cities, a half dozen well-armed ethnic militias with separatist aims, communist insurgencies, drug cartels, and the official government-in-exile set up by the NLD, all in a terrain which has jungles and hills. Oh yeah, sure, let's yeet the Indian Army in there. I'm sure it wouldn't go for them like Vietnam went for the US.

[@collins1972]

If india dares to even consider helping any outside force or it's own force in undermining the Myanmar military, india stands to lose Arunachal Pradesh and other regions to China. Myanmar's military non interference in other countries affairs is very key for India being able to suppress separatism the Assam, arunchal Pradesh and other regions.China also has too much investment in Myanmar to be enemies with the military.Already the Democratic government was dragging their feet in allowing china to invest in their country.

[@alex-sv8ru]

India is already ruled by a right wing government that has no regard for democracy. Why would they help Burma?

[@yhn9694]

Hey, I'm from Myanmar. Thanks for covering this. But our protests are not violent. The military's crackdown on the protests is.

[@teytreet7358]

Why myanmar coup gets all the attention and nothing happens when Thailand got a coup. The military appoints half of the senate.

[@efghotguy]

Because Thailand is split like 50-50 with half people supporting military, Myanmar people are at least 80% opposing the military.

[@philipshearer5286]

U Nu: *Wins election* U Nu: "U Ye" U Nu: *Removed in military coup* U Nu: "U Nu"

[@Xeverous]

tl;dw Ever since 1948 Myanmar (then Burma) gained independence (atfer being British colony) military holds the power and doesn't want to give it up.

[@vaulttech]

I expected you to have mentioned the Rohyngia genocide and how this influences Suu Kyi's "reputation" in the West...

[@luishernandezblonde]

The power of Myanmar army can remind how the Syrian Army got power. It also established a very abusive government that led up to people's uprising in 2011. That's why I sense the second Syria here, it is on the way to be now.

[@BloodfelX]

I know this is very inappropriate, but as a person who only knows English can I just say: I found it amusing at a surface level that everything started to go wrong for Myanmar with President -U No- Oh No being ousted by a coup from General -Ne Win- We Win. Childish, I know - but it almost sounds like something you would see on a meme image gallery. Thanks for making the news easily digestible for an idiot like me. ^_^

[@drekkerscythe4723]

holy fck

[@ironheart5830]

The General name is pronounce like Nay Win(means Shining Sun).

[@BloodfelX]

@@ironheart5830 I know, I'm just being silly - but thanks for the info!

[@inco9943]

starts at 1:08 you're welcome

[@iRiShNFT]

Interesting , Thank you Sir

[@chilion_sua]

‘the military claimed that the election was fraudulent and that there are 8 million voting irregularities’ sounds familiar 🤔🤔

[@KrustyKrabPizza22]

That's why undermining democracy is so dangerous

[@DoomDutch]

The name U Nu sounds very appropriate for knowing what is going to happen.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

Similar issue to Sudan. A toxic, malignant military that has political ambitions = cycle of coups and military leaders, which don't make good governments. They likely were behind the Rohingya persecution as well.

[@patriarch2603]

Yes the persecution started in 2010. Aung San Su Kyi is silly for not condemning coming from a Kayin in myanmar.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

@@patriarch2603 What do you mean by coming from Kayin in Myammar?

[@patriarch2603]

@@thesudaneseprince9675 most of the people in ethnic tribes don’t refer to them as a Burmese. It’s literal traditional that ethnic tribes try to differentiate from Burmese as possible.

[@patriarch2603]

@@thesudaneseprince9675 basically would a rohingya , Chinese call them self Burmese? Same thing for Kayin , Chin , Mon etc. Don’t get me wrong I am still a myanmar citizen just not Burmese.

[@thesudaneseprince9675]

@@patriarch2603 ah ok, thanks for the explanation. I'll admit I'm quite ignorant when it comes to the history of Myanmar. I thought Burma was just the British name for the former colony, while locals perfected Myanmar, just like many south African former colonies eg. Rhodesia

[@Warlock11206]

It is pronounced "hunta" not "Junta". It is a Spanish word. Other than that I love your channels.

[@FireRupee]

In Spanish/Castilian, yes. In Portuguese, it's pronounced a little differently, as /ʒˈũtɐ/ (varies by dialect). In Catalan, it can be /ˈd͡ʒun.ta/ or /ˈʒun.tə/ It's pronounced at least three different ways in English, one of them being with a /j/ at the beginning.

[@TJ_Travels1]

U NU LOOOL

[@SabaRaba1913]

as an Israeli, Sounds pretty Lebanon to me, with just one difference: Myanmar military's - Hezbollah

[@luishernandezblonde]

Yet the same military that Israel supports, and they're using Israeli weapons to shoot protesters.

[@tyrionlannister6459]

In other words you want your government to be the killers in the Middle East, and others not to fight back

[@adventuro]

Like the content. Would be good to have more videos and clips rather than just animations

[@boldiegoldie]

does anyone else find it funny that the leader before the coup was called U Nu and then the one after was called Ne Win? Just me? ok

[@utopiasimmpin3729]

Ne Win pronounced as Nay Win 👍🏼

[@wyrmhand]

Good overview.

[@Tysard]

Myanmar military be like: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.”

[@hugojurgensen8970]

Junta should be pronounced "hunta" in English.

[@sangwaraumo]

"Junta" sounds more like Portuguese while "hunta" sounds more Spanish, which is actually how the word got into English. Comes from the Latin "junctus" where the J was pronounced like "ee", I believe. Dictionary.com considers both pronunciations correct, but mentions "hunta" is currently more used.

[@NativeVsColonial]

No, it should be pronounced "Janta" in Hindi.

[@sangwaraumo]

@@donmab Nop

[@FireRupee]

Or "yunta". I've heard that far more.

[@nezn8]

I’m wondering who is backing up myanmar military.

[@nyarehd]

China I think. Cause they want natural resources in Myanmar like jades and teaks and the military is willingly to sell them.

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

china has always been Myanmar military's fan and they were the only major trade partner in myanmar's military regime days form the 60's till even now.

[@Imaginepossible]

9:40, why there is Ericsson logo on the hardware?

[@charmcepic8925]

You guys neeeeeeed an app

[@jie1379]

BTW, hopefully they can resolve situation peacefully. Myanmar needs a governed party elected by a fair election that can dominate policy decisions so they get country out of poverty.

[@RavP34]

So where are they getting their surveillance tech from?

[@command_unit7792]

China and Russia

[@RavP34]

@@command_unit7792 so I see where the ties are, unsurprising so say the least. I did read a while back that China had eyes on Myanmar.

[@iceteasos]

@@RavP34 China want resources from Myanmar at low price from Military Terrorist. Russia want to sell their fcking wepons to military terrorists . So they use their veto power to protect Military Terrorist.

[@Ineedtospendlesstimeonyoutube]

Hope Myanmar people will win against the tyrant. If you succeed I have a feeling it would be the start of an end to the authoritarian regime in Indo-China. Best regard from Thailand( We have our own dictator to fight against too).

[@kamanashiskar9203]

Do you want to become a constitutional monarchy or a republic? Also, Indochina has always had problems. From the Chinese to the French and then the Japanese and finally the Americans and Soviets.

[@Ineedtospendlesstimeonyoutube]

@@kamanashiskar9203 for most of us, we just want the Monarchy to be under the law that our main goal right now but to becoming a republic is not necessary a bad thing either. My country, Thailand, has never been colonize but we still got a problem

[@yam2871]

@@Ineedtospendlesstimeonyoutube Hope our fight for democracy wins. #MilkTeaAlliance

[@leonardgibney2997]

Who changed its name? Why can't we still call it Burma? "The military was always there". Same in Egypt and other places. It's a mixture of guns and power.

[@yourbot9788]

I know I am late but if u r curious , Burma is not represented all the people who live there . There are more than 60 languages as well as tens of ethical groups in Myanmar , KhaChin , KaYa , KaYin ( aka Karin ) , Chin , Burma ( aka Burmese ) , Mone , RaKhine and Shan . These are all ethic groups in Myanmar and they all have different languages but there are more than that if u count under 1 ethic group . Example under Chin state there are people like Zomi , Mizo , Lusei etc , yes they also speak differently . In Myanmar everyone speak Burmese to understand 1 another , so in Burmese language Burmese people are known as Burma which British adopted the accent during WW2 and ever since the world knew Myanmar as Burma until got independence and changed to Myanmar of course. So if u see someone from Myanmar they might not be Burmese ( aka Burma ), they could be came from different ethical group .

[@elliotwatson3754]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@technetium9653]

I really want to know what the military and police personal are thinking, what makes them loyal, what makes them shoot

[@tobywalker712]

Money

[@efghotguy]

Brainwashed that all the protesting happening are arranged by the opposition party, NLD. They break everything that has NLD logo.

[@franklinclinton4539]

Studies show that the guy with the guns often has the biggest chance of winning.

[@rjfaber1991]

Unless he's up against the guy with the fighter-bombers, he usually does, yes.

[@DutchDesires]

Our BBC showed very graphic murders on protesters from last weekend protests. An pick up with army personel opend fire on a scooter with un armed civillians passing by, killing the driver. Sure it probably is real an things are f-ed up there. But it makes you wonder as how they got their hands on that street cam footage, with the murder perfectly in the shot. And why our BBC showed it, as those thing are usually not shown. Anyway makes you also wonder why no one has stepped in yet. Think the army has killed more civillians in the same span as covid did there. And with covid we saw a lot of international pressure from countries against countries that did nothing about the situation.

[@eman1996fish]

No one: British bystanders at the Boston Tea Party, 1773: 1:25

[@themangix357]

Wow what kind of State Myanmar is. Everyone who has undergone military training knows that "Civilian authority is above Military officers, AT ALL TIME"

[@khantzawhtet6896]

Pov: U are watching this in the middle of night raids and soldiers literally shooting in front of your house Be safe my friends

[@yam2871]

Hope you are safe and sound. Shootings everywhere across Yangon last night.

[@curtisdaniel9294]

You only showed the economic situation through 1988. How is it going now?

[@harrytse6944]

More and more evidence recently indicates that the Junta chief of Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, has created a false image of China supporting the coup initially, particularly spreading amongst his army, so that the people of Myanmar believed without a doubt and felt hostility toward China accordingly. When the people express to continuing siding with NLD to protest against his coup and request the prompt discharge of DASSK (Daw Aung San Suu Kyi), he realized that it's unlikely to put forward his coup in an easy way. With the enormous and daily protests, the government failed to operate regularly. Meanwhile, on the other hand, China unexpectedly refused to recognize the legitimacy of its government. As a result, he, therefore, sent an Israeli lobbyist, called Ari Ben Menashe, to the US and seeks understanding. To my analysis, he calculatedly aimed at dividing the West from DASSK, as well as China. In other words, he was trying to convey a message to the West that rescuing DASSK would be harmful to the West's interest because "DASSK has been staying too close to China." Also, he made a gesture that he would be more willing to cooperate with the West than DASSK. I can almost conclude that he may be running out of gimmicks from his pocket and hoping to convince the West to exchange for his freedom. With my understanding, the reason why he reacted just tremendously opposite to his actions all of a sudden because China, in a recent talk with him, advised him to return the power to NLD peacefully. However, this inevitably surprised and irritated him. Subsequently, he felt depressed and declined to accept the proposition offered by China. With his continuous killing and suppression of his people, he seemingly has got no way out eventually. Not surprisingly, he is now nearly saying to the US, "Come take my country and set me free in return; DASSK is a puppet government of China. I am just a loyal friend of yours".

[@Joe--]

The Myanmar military junta is starting imprisonment for "spreading false information." This is why not only the law but the spirit of freedom of speech is important.

[@rohanjangam511]

IT WAS ONLY A KISS HOW DID IT END UP LIKE THIS

[@bensondewalt8200]

A coup can only happen if you have a weak leader. Apparently that woman was weak.

[@zaraung390]

because of the 2008 constitusion law.

[@iceteasos]

That woman, Daw Aung San Su Kyi is not weak. A coup happened becoz military terrorists have wepons.

[@idkwhy_0779]

The constitution of Myanmar does not give any power to command the military to either the president or state counsellor. Lets say she is not weak per se, her position is.

[@Lynn.-_-.]

5:50 wtf

[@titoazbi9725]

Are we forgetting that the entire Myanmar Christians, Buddhist, Hindu and Atheist all age defended and supported the mass killings and atrocity Aung San Suu Kyi and military did to Rohingyas.

[@BeWe1510]

Ah yes, we all know the quote: Where other states have an army, the Myanmar army has a state

[@patricofritz4094]

Ha like Prussia

[@tomeng9520]

Just days before the coup in Myanmar, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sent $ 350 million to Myanmar as emergency aid in the country's handling of the corona virus. According to the IMF, there were no obligations from Myanmar and the IMF has little opportunity to get an overview of where the money now ends up. "We are following developments closely. We are deeply concerned about how the events are affecting the Myanmar people," said a spokesman for the IMF.

[@maryclayton2983]

Rescue these people

[@user-br6jv7rq7s]

Nice

[@Mngalahad]

2:00 the 8888 uprising. Also known as the vore uprising.

[@VerminatorAFC]

These the same people that sat and watched the same military displace and try to exterminate hundreds of thousands of the Rohingyas. Isn't aung saungan suu kyi the same woman who tried to legitimise and downplay that whole thing. Are we now meant to be sympathetic to these people?

[@MohamedGX]

She is. Kind of ironic isn't it.

[@ramseykeilani9569]

I know, right. It's honestly disgusting that now Suu Kyi is being held up as some sort of hero by the westerners. She's every bit as evil as the junta which replaced her.

[@whathell6t]

@@ramseykeilani9569 Overall. Sanctions must be place on Myanmar no matter who in charge, be they Suu Kyi or the military for the genocide on the Rohingya.

[@ramseykeilani9569]

@@whathell6t Absolutely

[@ironheart5830]

@@MohamedGX What can she do she is not the one who controlling Military if she speak out she will be gone sooner or later don't you know that Military is independent institution in Myanmar where civilian government cannot control.

[@kamanashiskar9203]

Myanmar should just abolish its armed forces for good. The Dominican Republic had the same problem as Myanmar and thus they abolished their military.

[@NaviRyan]

What I can see happening is the people who want democracy become insurgents creating a civil war in Myanmar which would also invigorate the separatist groups which could collapse the country. This would cause the military to be unable to function being stretched thin with the collapse of the country, and ultimately only when China loses faith in the Burmese military will it lose the war and a new regime can take charge.

[@ayu5tails]

The United Nations needs to intervene with military force here. Just watching this unfold doing nothing when you can is immoral.

[@lyuuy7477]

i disagree. First united nations is a forum of nations not a government. And even if so , it is still wrong, cause it would set the precedence for united nations to interfere with any country they want which would essentially make them an unelected world government/dictatorship

[@karankapoor2701]

👍👍👍👍

[@deutscherdoggo]

#safemyanmar

[@beepboop9848]

the name of the first democratic president "ooo noo" (its u nu but it sounds like ooh noo) predicted everything xD

[@pradeepmagan6951]

plse also add - also known as Burma

[@myramoon1617]

According to the locals, the police and the soldiers are shooting guns and tear bombs not only in broad daylight but also at night. Fighting Myanmar.

[@andrew4363]

Oh thank god, I’m so confused about Myanmar.

[@TommiHonkonen]

this guy has to have really high speech skill if he negotiated independence from Britain

[@chizurumizuhara6136]

Remember myanmar was influenced by the USSR before. Very likely the government is autocratic.

[@adhisha04]

U Nu was not the President of Burma, he was the Prime Minister. Aung San died in 1947 and was not alive when Burma gained independence

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

Aung sun and many of his cabinet ministers were ginned by so called military men or men wearing military fatigues.

[@mr.g4005]

I'm not sure hu is the bad guys

[@worldpeace1822]

U Nu and Me Win

[@aaronjay4118]

The people need an army

[@htetaung04]

There is MISTAKE. Your phrasing is completely wrong. PROTESTS are NOT getting violent. Protests are perfectly peaceful. It's the military crackdowns that are violent. Please change that. Or atleast put an annotation correction. Also the military has been sending out thugs during day and night to start fires in civilian neighborhoods. I know this is TLDR but your portrayal in no way captures the brutality and sadism of the soldiers shooting peaceful protestors right on the head. Appreciate it tho because Myanmar situation requires global attention and UNSC's immediate action, not just statements.

[@sigurdbigset]

I love you chanel, coud you please update your stickers??

[@jazzcoustic]

Sent rambo to burma...

[@patricofritz4094]

Haha ja

[@PrincePawn]

Wonder what the country was like during the last few years of UK rule.... 🤔

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

what! romanticising now?!

[@maryclayton2983]

Armor up and disarm.

[@hillsilk5]

Unless someone they will secede on myanmar and declare themselve as independent country.

[@mrgoodnigth6742]

You call us violence ethnic group We just want to live

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

including the rohingya?

[@mrgoodnigth6742]

@@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN you decide Rohingyas muslim kill Rohingyas hindu no other reble group kill civilian

[@matpk]

British Burma

[@patriarch2603]

Better than Military Myanmar. From a Christian Kayin in Myanmar.

[@NyiPyaeSone]

As a burmese i wouldn't mind being under british again it sounds alot better than our military that would killed citizens for no reason

[@Souchirouu]

A Coup happens for two reasons. Either the fascists are in power and the people want their lives back or the fascists are not in power and they want power. It's really rare for coups to happen for any other reason.

[@collins1972]

If india dares to even consider helping any outside force or it's own force in undermining the Myanmar military, india stands to lose Arunachal Pradesh and other regions to China. Myanmar's military non interference in other countries affairs is very key for India being able to suppress separatism the Assam, arunchal Pradesh and other regions.China also has too much investment in Myanmar to be enemies with the military.Already the Democratic government was dragging their feet in allowing china to invest in their country. Sending Foreign forces into Myanmar to weaken the military will only influence separatism. Separatism will unite the people behind the Army and turn against any democratic government. Best scenario, invention of a new form of governance that has compromises for both the military junta and the democratic camp. ie "power sharing". If you choose pure democracy then the country will burn and fracture with separatism. Remember there is no country that indigenous multi-ethnic groups which is able to practice pure democracy.

[@miguelbarov2241]

Could you guys make a video on the situation in Mexico please? The majority party , Morena, nominated a serial rapist for governor of a state, even though there have been many protest (even more recently considering we are on women's history month) the party, nor the president have backed down, all this amidst soaring numbers of violence against women.

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

yeah, what's up with mexico?

[@sharpvolt2669]

The way he spelled the name of U Nu is so fking weird.

[@kirikei]

I was told she was a bad guy too... those news are so confusing

[@yanwinaung8111]

It's oversimplication of complicated politic. The world was let to believe that she was killing the muslim minority in the West of the country while she can't give command the military. When she pushed for constitution change to avoid there kind of problem, coup happened.

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

@@yanwinaung8111 one way or another she was appeasing the military that was committing genocide.