Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers | Bangkok Post: news - News Summed Up

Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers | Bangkok Post: news


Elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left, in blue) has been overshadowed by the army, led by Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing. Her adviser say flatly that 'the army doesn't want peace' with the Rohingya or other ethnic groups. (File photo)YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since. The army, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power from the civilian government in Burma, as the country is also known, in 1962.


Source: Bangkok Post January 28, 2018 18:45 UTC



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