Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed earlier as Myanmar releases ex-president Win Myint from jail

The Chinese have backed a new offensive against Myanmar since they refused to crackdown on human trafficking and organized crime in the border region between Myanmar and China. The Juntas days are numbered

I'm not unsympathetic to the idea her presidency was always just a puppet to normalize Myanmar's junta but making the choice to do that was her choice.

40 million of her supporters disagreed with you. What was she supposed to say? She was representing the whole of Burma, not just as ASSSK. "Oh yeah, the junta definitely committed genocide. I stand with Rohingya?? 😁😁😂 What about international communities?? What about their silence?? If jailing a couple of journalists makes her evil, that makes her better than most of the rest of the world leaders. For your information, those Rohingya are being supplied and trained by the junta to weaken the Arakan army advances in Rakhine state. How about that?

The military faction did almost all the killing. In Myanmar, the military (Tatmadaw) have their own political party. It's like the US marines having a party you voted for in elections, except in this case, they reserve 50% of the parliament seats + 1 seat (when Aung San Suu Kyi was active in the 2010s), and they don't report to anyone and provide their own funding. You know how tohe IJA and IJN pretty much decided things on their own and ignored everyone? It's like that except everyone else has their own private armies too. The changing of that parliamentary rule, and the coalition that actually won that election with 51% of the seats ousting the military was what cause the civil war to kick off again and as the military moved to take back control and dissolved all other political parties. It's not an exaggeration to say that the military party in Myanmar takes orders from no one. I know ASSK was called the president but she's not capable of giving them any orders. She can only shake hands with the devil and try to get a chance to stab him the back which ultimately failed. I don't think the Tatmadaw actually wanted to genocide the Rohingya, this was an operation to take more land and resources while everyone else was busy shaking hands. I would say however that it was ethnic cleansing. Myanmar isn't a unitary or even a federation government. To get anything done you have to talk to the different heads of the factions like the Karens Union, the Arakans, the Kachin Union, or yes even the Rohingya amongst a myriad of others. They're almost like little kingdoms inside of the country that have their own government within the regions they control. Every group has its own private military force which is why the civil war kicked off again so fast after parliament's dissolution and with such archaic weapons if you ever look at the battle footage coming out of there. Ever since the fighting began after WW2, the civil war in Myanmar never really truly stopped, it only ebbs in intensity. The whole releasing Aung San Suu Kyi thing in 2010 was a push by all sides to lay down their weapons and arguably is the closest thing to stopping the decades long fighting ever since ww2.