https://www.scmp.com/rss/514801/feed Nicholas Farrelly is Professor and Head of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania in Australia. He is also on the board of the Australia-Asean Council. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In a general amnesty announced recently on state television, Myanmar’s military junta removed six years from the jail term of Aung San Suu Kyi, the 78-year-old leader of the government removed by a coup in February 2021. This came a week after the junta had moved her into house arrest following a year in solitary confinement. But it still leaves Suu Kyi facing a 27-year jail term on bogus charges. The junta also lopped four years off former president Win Myint’s sentence, and reportedly released... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3230706/why-myanmars-brutal-military-junta-can-never-defeat-aung-san-suu-kyi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3230706/why-myanmars-brutal-military-junta-can-never-defeat-aung-san-suu-kyi?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:00:22 +0000 Two years after Myanmar’s coup on February 1, 2021, the country’s large and growing resistance forces receive almost no attention outside the country. The democratic opposition, fronted by the National Unity Government (NUG), but comprising many different groups, armies, militias and individuals, has also struggled to gain awareness, even for its substantial battlefield successes. And perhaps most notably, the opposition’s pleas for weapons from the West to fight against an increasingly brutal... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3208449/why-has-west-given-ukraine-billions-military-aid-virtually-ignored-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3208449/why-has-west-given-ukraine-billions-military-aid-virtually-ignored-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:00:16 +0000