Suu Kyi's party demands her release as Myanmar generals tighten grip on power

Nobody can force you into committing a genocide unless you agree to it. The least she could have done is to resign, but no she did not. I don't mind seeing her argue her thoughts in The Hague.

The entire world as well as the Nobel Peace Prize committee went nuts to give this woman an award and what happened? It’s all so sad, but this woman now because of her actions and lack of action to stop these atrocities, she’s in a world of trouble and now once more the military seized power, they say it’s temporary, but I doubt it and especially with their history.

Back to the future for Aung San Syuu Kyushu.

She looks older and more tired now.

Kudos to the generals for timing - all the usual voices have their own COVID priorities now.

Feel sorry for normal citizens though, and the ethnic-cultural minorities

Can’t be a Junta or dictatorship, as there still is the party of her, demanding her release.

General Min Aung Hlaing has promised a free and fair election and a handover of power to the winning party, without giving a time frame.

(He will announce the election once he has his vote counters in place. It is not important who votes, but rather who counts the votes. Expect the military to win in a landslide!)

Bungle

Two points: firstly, the Burmese military's actions were a direct response to Rohingya aggression. The Burmese do not share the arrogant and hubristic Western governments' indulgence of religious violence and instead of hand-wringing, they chose to do something about it.

Exactly! It is amazing how the Western media uncritically parrot the islamist propaganda, without ever checking the background for the violence in Rakine state, i.e. the history of terrorism by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Group (ARSA). That ISIS, Al Quaeda, and various radical islamist government are so eager to bash the Burmese government should give real journalists a moment to think.

Isn't it quite telling that all the Trump supporters offer excuses and support for this coup...

I guess they are all nostalgic for Jan 6th...

Military is very smart. Put the puppet woman as head, get sanctions removed, massive investment, then throw her away and take the big cookie jar all for themselves.

I think she is 75. Aung San Syuu Kyushu was probably over her head as a president. I wish she would have declined to lead the country.

Two points: firstly, the Burmese military's actions were a direct response to Rohingya aggression. 

No. Learn the actual history. Arakan was an independent kingdom for some 5000 years before the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma invaded Arakan and conquered them circa 1785. This conquest brought Konbaung forces into direct contact with British forces in India. It was not long before the Konbaung and British were at war and the fighting was in Arakan territory. In time Burma was conquered by the British (circa 1826) and colonized. The Rohingya began fighting for their independence from the British. The Japanese conquered Burma during WWII and ArakanheB was the site of major fighting between British and Japanese forces. When the war was over, the British divided Arakan into three provinces and handed them to newly independent Burma. The Rohingya did not want to be part of Burma and began organizing to seceed from Burma and become an independent nation once again. While not achieving complete independence the socialist president in 1950 created a single Rakhine State out of the three provinces created by the British and granted some regional autonomy. It was 2012 when militant Buddhists began to attack Muslim Rohingya fearing the Buddhists were becoming a minority in their homeland. , fighting precipitated by the deaths of ten Rakhine Muslims at the hands of Rakhine Buddhists. It was in fact militant Buddhists who started the violence and who continue to sustain it.