A Year After Coup, Myanmar Heads Nowhere

Despite violence and death, generals confront a defiant people

By: Nava Thakuria

Since Myanmar’s military staged its February 2021 coup, the Tatmadaw has been unable to return to the kind of overweening power it exercised prior to the 2010 return to partial democracy. It has wrecked the country in its attempt to do so, with an economy reckoned to have shrunk by 30 percent according to the World Bank, and earned cont…