Bangkok – Hundreds of protesters screamed and wept as they demonstrated against Myanmar’s junta in Thailand’s capital on Thursday, the third anniversary of an army coup that ended the country’s brief spell of democracy.

 

Young and old gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in Bangkok, wearing T-shirts showing jailed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with white flowers in their hair and red bandanas on their foreheads.

 

While Yangon’s streets were quiet, in Bangkok around 300 protesters — eyed by Thai police — shouted anti-junta slogans and trampled bloodied images of Myanmar army leader Min Aung Hlaing.

 

Caption: Protesters hold images of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office in Bangkok on February 1, 2024, to mark the third anniversary of the coup in Myanmar today.//AFP

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-01

 

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Good timing. I was reading how their dear leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing is no longer flavor of the month following considerable losses in the remoter regions to various rebels and insurgent groups. That and lack of recruits for the Tatmadaw. Of course, his deputy is already being touted as simply waiting in the wings (maybe the incumbent will be offered exile in Cambodia) so just a change in their (mis)management rather than a chink in their armor.

 

Progress  and democracy in Myanmar has always been measured by a rather unique set of metrics.

8 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Good timing. I was reading how their dear leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing is no longer flavor of the month following considerable losses in the remoter regions to various rebels and insurgent groups. That and lack of recruits for the Tatmadaw. Of course, his deputy is already being touted as simply waiting in the wings (maybe the incumbent will be offered exile in Cambodia) so just a change in their (mis)management rather than a chink in their armor.

 

Progress  and democracy in Myanmar has always been measured by a rather unique set of metrics.

Myanmar another country lost to the military regimes, luckily Prayut & Co got ousted before another term.