Posted on 04/12/2023 4:25:42 AM PDT by FarCenter
The Arakan Army (AA), one of Myanmar’s most audacious and effective insurgencies turned 14 years old this week, underscoring what can be achieved by anti-military resistance as civil war rages on multiple fronts.
“Felicitation” notices were duly made to the rebel group and its leaders on the day, standard communications among resistance groups to each other on key anniversaries.
The anti-military National Unity Government (NUG), formed after the 2021 coup, also sent its best regards, as did the Bamar People’s Liberation Army (BPLA), the Chin Defense Force-Mindat, the Yaw Defense Force (YDF) and the Anti-Dictatorship Revolution People’s Army (DRPA), among others.
Well-wishers had to be careful about posting on Facebook: the platform still bans the AA and three of its ethnic armed organization (EAO) allies and posting anything related risks a suspension of any account. But this censorship threat has not diminished the AA’s popularity and reach.
The NUG’s acting president, Duwa Lashi La, sent a handwritten letter which was in many ways more touching for the occasion, congratulating the AA on uniting the people of Rakhine. His note received a positive reply from the AA’s charismatic founder and leader, Major General Twan Mrat Naing.
This reflected a respectful acknowledgment of the AA’s near-top position on Myanmar’s revolutionary ziggurat, and the struggles of the NUG to unite hundreds of disparate People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) to better coordinate armed struggle against the State Administration Council (SAC) junta.
In many respects, the AA is the preferred model for many emerging armed groups, who admire the AA’s determination, fighting spirit and elan, and its successful model for mobilization against military repression.
Myanmar has become an incubator for insurgent innovation, but this had spread well before the February 2021 democracy-suspending coup.
Hmmmm...
But a 2014 western backed coup in Ukraine that overthrew a legitimately elected government is treated much differently.
“The anti-military National Unity Government (NUG), formed after the 2021 coup...”
Do they have Chrysknives and Spice?...................
The spice must flow.
They’re Muslims, Jim.
2014 was not a coup.
Yanukovych was attempting to seize authoritarian power in what one would call a self-coup (Yanukovych had already attempted a self-coup in 2004)
Protests followed Yanukovych abandoning a trade deal due to Russian interference, aggravated by him ramming through unconstitutional authoritarian laws with the encouragement of the Russian president, and culminating in violence publicly endorsed by the Russians.
After about three months of protests and police violence against demonstrators, Ukrainian president Yanukovych fled the country to escape prosecution, was kicked out of his own party, and voted out of office, peacefully, by a majority of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s democratically elected parliament. The largest block of parliamentarians that voted him out were his own party members and former party members.
His cabinet resigned. The parliament appointed an interim government, and free and fair elections were held a few months later, despite a Russian invasion and ongoing war.
The Ukrainian government that was elected in 2014 was voted OUT in 2019 —> that puts a lie to your statement that this was a coup.
There was no coup
The Bamar are a Tibeto-Burmese language speaking people but of indic culture. The other ethnic groups are also Tibeto-Burmese speakers in general, but the entire country never managed centralization nor federalization
I think the best bet for Myanmar would be for the various groups to join the Indian federation -- India is already a federation of 28 nations (most with 1600+ years of distinct history and all with separate languages) -- and for India to be more decentralized
Yes...yes...
A violent, ummm, mostly peaceful protest in which hundreds died and a legitimately elected and international government was replaced with ummm...someone.
And all backed and funded by a foriegn government.
But...definitely not a coup.
Nope — the protest in which Yanukowych sent militia to beat the protestors, leading to wider protests.
Finally Yanukowych fled - and then was impeached by parliament - including members of his own party.
He wasn’t “replaced by someone else” - there were elections and Poroshenko won, in 2014.
In 2019 Poroshenko lost to Zelensky.
Not backed nor funded by foreign governments — you are just making up rot
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