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From [0], dated January 16, 2020:

>Aung San Suu Kyi could not have ordered the military to stop their operations against the Rohingya, and it was legitimate to fear that the military would reverse the transition toward democracy ...

Now we see just how little control she had over the generals.

You're quoting the first part of that article, but ignoring the entire conclusion - she was a willing enabler of the genocide.

"But now that the military establishment has moved to accommodate the Burmese pro-democracy movements in the country, oppression of so-called Muslim foreigners like the supposedly Bengali Rohingya is perfectly acceptable along the path toward building an exclusionary Buddhist nation-state."

This coup shows how meaningless that "accommodation" really was - no major break with military policy would have been tolerated anyway.

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