A summary report of Myanmar's Military Junta from the perspective of students. This shows how the Junta started and what is the status of it in the present times.

1. The Politics behind
Myanmar’s Military Junta
Instructor: Benjamin Terrence II L. Aggabao

2. Following a general election which
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party won by a
landslide, they have thought that the
results was forged through a fraud. It
had backed the opposition, who were
demanding a re-run of the vote
claiming widespread fraud.

3. A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021

4. The military has put
them down with live
fire, water cannons
and rubber bullets.
What started as civil
disobedience has
now turned into
essentially a civil war
across Myanmar.
Local militias calling
themselves People's
Defence Forces, or
PDFs, have attacked
military convoys and
assassinated officials.

5. The Assistance Association for
Political Prisoners (AAPP),
which keeps a toll of those
killed, jailed or detained by
the military, says 1,503 people
have been killed since the
military regime came to
power.
The US-based organisation
Acled, which compiles figures
from news reports and
publications by human rights
organisations, says about
12,000 may have died.

6. Who took the power?
Military commander-in-chief
Min Aung Hlaing has taken
power

7. He has long wielded significant political
influence, successfully maintaining the power of
the Tatmadaw - Myanmar's military - even as the
country moved towards democracy.

8. What happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?

9. Ms Suu Kyi has been sentenced to six years in jail for violating the country's
official secrets act, possessing illegal walkie-talkies and publishing
information that may "cause fear or alarm". She was sentenced to six
years in jail. She is 76 years old.
Ms Suu Kyi is going on trial again, accused of corruption over the purchase
of a helicopter, among other charges

10. National League for Democracy

11. Essentially this is about a
rivalry between the military
and a popular pro-
democracy movement led by
Aung San Suu Kyi and her
NLD party.

12. LET’S GO TO HISTORY
People in Myanmar
were put through
almost 50 years
of military rule.
The country was
basically closed
off to the world
and international
sanctions hurt.

13. SINCE Myanmar borders India, Bangladesh,
China, Laos and Thailand. It’s such a diverse
country — it has more than 130 ethnic groups.
And ethnic divisions only got worse under
Japanese and British rule. And then Burma got
its independence.
So the military’s been in power but at one point
decides to share control and create some kind
of democracy.

14. • There were recurring protests and violent military
crackdowns while Aung San Suu Kyi made a name
for herself as the face of the opposition.
• She spent a total of 15 years under house arrest.
Her efforts won her a Nobel Peace Prize.

15. Then came what people call Myanmar’s
experiment with democracy.
There was a referendum, attempts at free
elections and foreign investment increased.
In 2015 Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD party won
in a landslide.

16. What has the international reaction
been to the coup?

17. THE ANSWER
The United Nations has warned of a deepening
humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, with "an
intensification of violence and a rapid rise in
poverty".
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused
the security forces of a "reign of terror".
The US, UK and European Union have imposed
sanctions on military officials.
China blocked a UN Security Council statement
condemning the coup, but has backed calls for a
return to democratic norms.

18. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN?

19. Activity
1. What do you think are the possible
effects of the junta in Myanmar in
the Philippines?
2. Should the government launch an
endeavor to help the internal
conflict of Myanmar?