{"id":8808,"date":"2021-12-10T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:57:29","slug":"myanmars-annus-horribilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/myanmars-annus-horribilis\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s annus horribilis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/andrew-selth\/\">ANDREW SELTH<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&nbsp;has been just over a year since Myanmar emphatically re-elected Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy as the dominant partner in the country\u2019s quasi-civilian government. Next February, it will be a year since the armed forces, or Tatmadaw, ignored that result and seized power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past ten months, the scope and intensity of political violence in Myanmar has grown dramatically. The bitter civil wars that have long blighted the border areas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/upward-spiral-violence-myanmar\">now encompass the entire country<\/a>, as groups from the majority Bamar population in the central regions have joined ethnic minority armed organisations in their struggles against military domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, the nation-wide civil disobedience movement (CDM) against the coup was characterised by boycotts, resignations, demonstrations, street barricades and symbolic gestures such as the coordinated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/importance-myanmar-s-pots-and-pans-protests\">beating of pots and pans at night<\/a>. The new regime responded with conventional crowd control measures, usually conducted by the national police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, within weeks the police were largely replaced by the armed forces and the level of violence rapidly escalated. The soldiers resorted to lethal force, prompting the resistance movement to manufacture defensive shields, body armour and weapons of their own. Armed with sling-shots, petrol bombs, bows and arrows and improvised airguns, however,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/myanmar-and-new-kind-civil-war\">they had little chance<\/a>&nbsp;against the well-armed troops sent against them. The number of civilian casualties quickly mounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/myanmar-s-annus-horribilis\">Myanmar\u2019s annus horribilis<\/a>&#8221; article published at The Interpreter, written by Griffith Asia Institute Adjunct Professor Andrew Selth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDREW SELTH\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 It&nbsp;has been just over a year since Myanmar emphatically re-elected Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy as the dominant partner in the country\u2019s quasi-civilian government. Next February, it will be a year since the armed forces, or Tatmadaw, ignored that result and seized power. 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