MyanMar’s decade of Hope and GlooM - Implications for India I

It pinpoints the nature of the nation’s importance for India; reviews the key developments and trends of the said decade; dissects the impulses that lay behind the military coup of 1 February 2021 and its aftermath; and presents a few possible scenarios for the future. [...] polItIcal traJectory, 2011–2021 The prologue to the decade under review was defined by the democracy era (1948–1962), the decades of autocratic rule by General Ne Win (1962–1988), and the transition years (1988–1992) when the biggest movement for democracy was crushed and the victory for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 1990 elections was set aside to ensure the continuation and cons. [...] The military, which wielded half of the power, decided to help itself to the other half (given to the elected representatives) too, regardless of the law or the consequences. [...] In effect, the nation stood badly fractured and divided into three camps: the military, which controlled the major towns; the opposition that called the shots in the countryside; and the ethnic groups that remained assertive in the geographic periphery. [...] The absence of security and stability, and damage to the economy, which seemed to be in freefall from the time the coup was staged, were the obvious outcomes of the conflict.