Bertil Lintner, Asia Times: Myanmar’s generals blindsided by Gen Z protests
Youthful demonstrations have used social media and other tech to outmaneuver and expose old-fashioned coup makers
CHIANG MAI – It is becoming abundantly clear that Myanmar’s military leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing didn’t anticipate the youthful fury his democracy-suspending coup would spark.
But the Generation Z-led street demonstrations now spreading across the nation have exposed just how out of modern touch the again-ruling generals are.
Min Aung Hlaing looked tense and anything but confident when he made his first TV address to the public on February 8 at the same time as huge demonstrations swept the country.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 12, 2021
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