{"id":5721,"date":"2019-04-16T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2023-08-07T07:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:26:45","slug":"myanmars-intelligence-apparatus-under-aung-san-suu-kyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/myanmars-intelligence-apparatus-under-aung-san-suu-kyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s intelligence apparatus under Aung San Suu Kyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/andrew-selth\/\">ANDREW SELTH<\/a>\u00a0 |<\/p>\n<p>When Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) took office in 2016, a wave of euphoria swept over Myanmar, shared by many people in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, there was a rather naive belief that everything would suddenly be transformed. 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