Thailand’s move will encourage Min Aung Hlaing to consolidate control by escalating crimes and atrocities, analyst warns.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6592761

Thailand has invited regime leader Min Aung Hlaing to a regional summit that it will chair next month, becoming the second country in the world after Russia to welcome the leader of a 2021 coup that has devastated Myanmar.

  • DogMuffinsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    My understanding was more like a “transition to democracy” which may have been slow or stalled but was better than an outright junta.

    You might say, the government lacked the resources to establish control in some regional and rural areas, but they had bigger problems.

    Another aspect is that she was not the progressive darling of the left that the West imagined her to be. They stripped her Nobel prize after her support for persecution of the rohingya.

      • DogMuffinsEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’ve visited also, and have family there, although certainly not an expert - far from it.

        My take is simply that culturally, there’s a deeply held kind of zenophobia. It’s exacerbated by poverty, inequity, and the way they’ve been so closed off for so long.

        I don’t mean that in a judgy derogatory way - given the circumstances an unbridled hatred of the rohingya is not unexpected.