I think people try to oversimplify the story in Myanmar. The simplest way to put it, while remaining truthful, is that the country has been ruled by the military right up to the present. A few years ago the military decided to share power with civilian politicians, but they are making an adjustment to that right now. The military has been in charge for pretty much all of the last roughly 60 years.
@@Jordan-Ramses Oh shut up with the propaganda. The military doesn’t care about political affiliation otherwise you would know that there’s multiple military juntas in Africa and south asia that have nothing to do with socialism.
Fans: Hey can you cover some modern history? Hilbert: What time frame would you want me to cover? Fans: Anything after WW1 is cool? Hilbert: Ok I'll do last week. PS Great video
My great grandfather is 85 years old. He was born in 1936. He faced the English era, then the Japanese, English again, after the independence era, Ne win era, 1988 era, after the 1988 era, 2008-2015 era. He has many great historical stories that he remembers and tells me about! Some of his stories are a little different from what is Hilbert talking about but still, this video is 99.8% accurate! Also, Ne win wasn't a communist! He was Socialist! Also, Aung San Suu Kyi did many great things to the country that the military wasn't able to do in decades. Westerners cant see ASSK and her party do great things because of the military! *Btw I live in Myanmar and born here! Situations are getting terrible! So send help if you can before communications and internet blackout again!*
That was very helpful. Can't imagine how the people of Burma have endured. Thanks for bringing some clarity to this crazy difficult situation. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
If you search the hashtag SaveMyanmar you'll see videos of people protesting as well as other updates. The military ordered ISPs to block Facebook, but people used VPNs, or else switched en-masse to Twitter. Now the military has shut down The Internet it seems.
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s I've been wondering if this will escalate fighting with The Kachin and resume fighting with The Karen. I've also wondered how The Shan might respond to this. Do you think we could end up seeing a North-and-Eastern coalition oppose Naypyidaw?
@@WaterShowsProd They already resumed fighting with Karens before the coup. Even then, the military buys new weapons and equipment from China, Russia, and Israel. The rebel armies don't stand a chance. The only way they can inflict damage is total chaos through terrorism like ISIS. But they wont since theyre not terrorists
@Uncle Ho let's be honest, people like you will be among those that will criticize the west if they show interest in the Thailand that you are talking about.
the way I see it with history I've studied at least is that it's like politics of the past so modern world news/politics seems to fit well for a history channel
thats what bugs me about the news. they pretend that violence etc just came out of nowhere when in reality a lot of current conflicts go way back and a lot of "crazy out of nowhere news" could be explained
@@collinspecht6725 Abundance brings people, people compete, and competition breeds power dynamics. Then again, my country is beautiful and it ain't so bad. Home is where the heart is I guess.
@@collinspecht6725: Russia. I love Russia. Probably one of my favourite countries I have ever visited. Would love to go back. Such a beautiful and extremely unique country mixed with various different cultures and ethnicities. However the politics of that country is again like you say, incredibly corrupt.
bruh its a continuation of where they left off that was put on hold when said colonizers showed up. you think they were just getting along in the most idealized world you can think of? lmao fuck bro you're funny.
Man I wish these kinda things would be more publicly reported on. Without this video I literally wouldn’t have known that Myanmar had literally just fallen to a military junta.
@@FazeParticles but they're trying to be dictators again, and we, The citizens of Myanmar are trying to Stop these SCUMS of human beings from rising up again
@@FazeParticles It is actually terrifying. I live in Myanamar and I don't live near the cities(isolated place) but they just shoot 7 years old kids across the street
It's not just the Rohingya, they're just the easiest to report on because their home state and the refugee camps in Bangladesh are open to journalists. Kachin State and Shan State both have similar problems, but they're rugged and closed to journalists.
Now we,citizens of Myanmar, come to know who is the culprit for those genocide crimes. Our own grand army has betrayed us and commited crime at the frontier we cannot see. Now they are upon us.
@@pinkfluffylama29 Because the Rohingya genocide has so far been supported by the populace. That calls any claims of "fighting for those who can't" immediately into question. Why did you (abstract you, meaning the people of Myanmar) not fight to end the oppression of the Rohingya whilst the country was still "democratic"?
@@Oujouj426 Actually have u ever wondered why media show only one side of the story,which is Rohingya but not the other side which is Rakhine people,who are also suffering too?Doesn't story has to look into from both perspectives if there's two people/group involved in it?Just a little reminder ,don't fully believe what the media says all the time.If u truly want to know the real truth,research yourself or go experience yourself to that country cause you can never know what's actually happening behind the curtains.
@@Ashley-sc1oh I am aware of terrorist acts by the Rohingya. But that pales in comparison to what is done to them, and the oppression is what facilitates the resistance. My own country resisted a larger power in the 90s, I aware of media spinning, which is why I do not care for any victim blaming like this.
Some fun facts about Myanmar: the Burmese term for the USDP and their political/paramilitary groups is "Chat Putt" or "Monitor Lizard" or sometimes we call them "lizards" in English.
We call the "Phoot" to be exact. We want to sound it as insulting as possible. And it sounds something between the sound of blowing your snot off or puking.
@@Suesserto_000 Couldn't have put it better myself. Though now, there's the 5000 Kyats for the pro-military groups who are paid (5000 Kyat or roughly 3.5 USD per day) to commit violence on their behalf.
I feel so ashamed as a Myanmar citizen when people claimed us as ethnic cleansing and genoside supporters. Truth to be told, We didn’t even get any information about it from our social media or our national television channels. I swear on my life we didn’t know about Rohingyas than we ignored them. And our Leader, Su Kyi, denied this bcoz military is at her neck, in my opinion, the coup is also sooner or later. I really hope people know military was the real culprit behind the curtains. Again, I apologize as a Myanmar citizen for not hearing out on minority voices and to all the Muslin community all over the world. I’m ashamed. May Law Ka Nat bless our Country during this coup de’tat. We just want to be free.
Don't forget how the government also likes to target other ethnic groups such as the Chin, and especially KAREN. It's important for Bamar people to know this.
"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to Liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington's Farewell Address.
@@FirstLast-hg1ez well it mean if the military is too damn large the people’s liberty can be under threat. Like you know the American military industrial complex
@@TheLocalLt and your views are applauded by the state department and military industrial complex. China historically couldn’t ever invade anything past its neighbors, let alone America. If they ever try to take over Taiwan it’ll be politically, not militarily. The issue of sinophobia is now fashionable because neolibs/neocons are running out of boogeymen to portray in fake news media
Great video. Have you ever visited this country? I remember visiting it in 2016. Tourism was just coming up at that time. It really felt like being on the unbeaten track. Since you're always putting a lot of effort in pronunciation, Burmese money KYAT is pronunced as "CHAT" or "TSJAT" or something like that. And as for the "Pagan Kingdom". I assume it's pronounced the same as the city of Bagan, which goes like: "Pah-gaan". If that makes any sense. Of there are Burmese viewers they can hopefully make it more clear. Again, great you bring attention to this!
First time viewer here from Myanmar. Thank you for the first ever objective video I watched on RUclips about Myanmar published by a foreigner. One notable thing though. The architect of the move to appoint Saw Aung San Su Kyi as the state councilor is called U Ko Ni. He was assassinated shortly after the move and ring leaders behind his assassination were never found.
@@sid2112 Yep. We just hope that the price won't be too bloody. And people in our country know we have to rely on just ourselves because let's be honest, UN and international pressure is pretty useless.
@@martinphilip8998 kinda hard to say because the drug trade leaders are powerful rebels but they sometimes co operate with the military so its really hard to say yes or no...
THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS. WE’RE CURRENTLY TAKING UP ON THE STREETS TO PROTEST AND JUST HAD 24 HOURS WITHOUT INTERNET SO PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT OUR COUNTRYS CONDITION. MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE AT STAKE AND WE DONT KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN
Take up arms if it comes to it, brother. If they will not give you freedom, you'll have to take it from them. We had to do the same thing from the British in 1776...as well as numerous nations and people had before then as well. Just be sure to have a sizable group BEFORE you go storming the capital
@09ธนกฤต บุตรสระเกษ more in Thailand actually. I think Thailand is the country that since last century had more coups in the entire world ! I was already living in Thailand in 2014 when the last one happened. Yellow shirts are a bunch of conservative yes man to the classical power.
Awesome thanks for watching man! I've been enjoying looking at some countries I don't know so much about so I'm glad you're liking the new direction as well!
Thank you for making this video. As a myanmar citizen we need alot of awareness from around the word. Our internet and phone connectivity are keen to be shut down without any notice so this kind of video help up spread the word that the military had forcefully taken our democracy and put us under their dictatorship.
Have visited Myanmar. It’s a beautiful country. But it’s suffered greatly under it’s rulers. The British raj was no picnic either with tens of thousands dying in the Saya San rebellion as I recall.
This is an incredibly well researched and well presented video. Thank you. I do want to add that the Pagan In Pagan Kingdom is pronounced “Ba -Gaaan”. I think they have changed the spelling to Bagan now to avoid confusion with Paganism. Again, well done with this video!
Interesting deep dive into what is happening in Myanmar. Keep it up, your interest in history gives an important perspective to the events that are taking place today.
My grandad was a royal marine commando Chindit in Burma during the Second World War he was with Gurkhas and living behind enemy lines for two years and made it back to carry on loving his family and grandchildren ♥️♥️ and was awarded a Gurkha knife and the Burmese star for his service 4th commando Ronald Henry Wensley RIP ♥️
This is the best history video about Burma I have watched. Every other video about modern Burmese history has left me with more questions then answers.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi actually returned to nurse her dying mother but was pushed into spotlight when she witnessed the 8888 uprising and joined the cause.
Hello, I am in Myanmar and I am extremely grateful that you made this video. As now, we have unreliable connections time to time and there are many protest while many are peaceful sometimes some are violent.
So glad you are touching upon Myanmar 🇲🇲 and its history as it is not often talked about almost anywhere. It's really has a interesting history with its culture and various people actually.
Unless you have the fbi that attacks and arrest anyone who they disagree with. Blm can attack the White House but people who protest elections are terrorists
The civil wars started because the British intentionally divided the country for a century. The military junta grew because of civil wars. Their Devide and Rule policy tore our country apart. We are still trying to patch it up. Everything is Cause and Effect.
@@htetpainghtun8151 If there are people trying to leave your country and become their own thing, they should be allowed to do so. Smaller countries, smaller armies, smaller the amount of wealth governments can parasite to exist, smaller the chance of a dictatorship taking power.
I had a guy at my school who was a transfer student from Myanmar and got to know him well. He told me his family were mainly politicians or part of the military....at the time I had no idea the implications of the latter
My Grandfather who was Indian at the time (Now he's Pakistani) had a job in the capital Rangoon. He had to leave his job and move back to India cause of the Japanese Invasion
As a civilian of Burma born in 1990s, I assure you that this would be the last great fight we endure. We deserve the long overdue democracy and there would be blood shed in the coming days. But we won't give up as we trust that United Nations will not stand by and watch us being killed by the ruthless military. Times have changed, Power comes from the People. And I believe this is the revolution we always hoped for better or worse. Wish us luck.
Thank you for the contact. The information in here are pretty accurate. I live in myanmar and a citizen and i’m sick of the injustice the army have been doing so far. They are now arresting everyone who stands in their way and violence against the peaceful protesters.
almost all history classes in school are very bias and often misrepresent stuff to suit the political system, its reason why my country Lebanon have no history lesson about the civil war because no one won it, and so which version would u like to tell coz there like more then 12 faction.
History books in classrooms are heavily edited. I didn’t learn the real history of my own country until I volunteered at the national Uni library. But these books might also be bias , who knows
thank you so much for covering this, im a karen native that lives in the us and im pretty concerned with the country, again thank you for making this video
Great video. Loved the mix of currents events with history background. Very informative, looking forward to more. Politics, world events, history all welcomed and encouraged
I am Myanmar National. This is one of the best videos i have ever seen on RUclips! Very accurate and precise. Some additional notes: When the government announced the country as Buddhist Country, this upset many ethnic people, which led to many armed forces. The military leaders are the one that always commit genocides. Again, thank you for the video. PS: Subscribed!
We people are not giving up. Aung san su kyi had done her job. She had shown what the people could have without dictatorship. I hope that what my parents faced what i felt in past doesnt continue for the future generations.
@@erichayes8445The question "who killed Rohingya "have several different answers.Do u know what Aung San Su Kyi can't do anything in those years because of Military . Military is taking power in those days. Militart arrested many people who report about Rohingya not Aung San Su Kyi.
@@valdmenshikov9687 she still denied it on live TV thus making her complicate it's just like how the people who knew about the holocaust and did nothing about the holocaust and denied the holocaust in germany's government are still responsible for the holocaust
@@harry-m645 the military is ofc doing it but she still denied it on live TV making her complicate, just like the german government officials who denied the holocaust and did nothing about the holocaust are still responsible for the holocaust
I always taught my cousins about Burma and how there was a war that's been going on since 1947 I think? I always talked about how barely nobody covered the war or story until now when a coup happens. I remember telling my cousins how bad the stability was there and how something could happen, and look at what happened now.
Thank you for the update, my parents are from Burma and my aunt used to live there, she lives in a apartment a few feet away from us but we can take a walk there, and my parents watched this, they still are on the Tv but love from Monmouth
I liked this video, but there’s only one thing I see as an error. Ne Win’s regime was not communist in the sense we think of. When he rose to power, he declared that Burma would become a “socialist” state under an ideology that would be called the Burmese Way to Socialism. This became the ideology of the Burma Socialist Program Party. It mixed aspects of Marxism and Buddhism, but did not wish to establish a communist society.
🤣 It doesn't matter. Socialism is cancer whatever form it takes, because it goes against human nature. All forms of Socialism are a denial or reality.. that's why they are so authoritarian, because they have to use state power to enforce it! As you said yourself, it's an 'ideology'. Get a grip! 🤣
Ne Win actually seized power twice. The first time in a "national emergency" where he promised to return power to civilian rule after a year. (Sound familiar?) That was in 1960. He refused to step down after the year was over and launched, essentially, a coup against himself in 1962. That's why I'm skeptical of the current claim of the army to return power in a year. BTW Ne Win was seriously crazy. He finally proved to be an embarrassment to the army. Hence Saw Maung's coup against him in 1988. Ne Win died under house arrest and under, some would say, mysterious circumstances in 2002. Ne Win's protege, Khin Nyunt, became spy chief under later dictator General Than Shwe. And so it goes....
@@sunnyjim1355 Not all socialist ideologies are authoritarian, a lot of socialists actually favor liberal democracy within a social ownership framework, this is because the socialist movement, just like any movements out there, is divided and split among ideological lines, particularly between libertarians and authoritarians. One thing that you can look at is how the Bolshevik prosecuted Nestor Makno's anarchists and other democratic socialists during the Russian civil war.
I hope your new government can atleast control the Royinga situation becuase Cases are surging in Bangladesh, my home country and millions are dying by the previous government.
@@DebsStuffs Thanks. We hope too. Also the leader of the current coup did pretty much all of that. That's why we can not accept this situation. The world has to know this evil. Please share and help us.
@@DebsStuffs Regarding that, the Junta has welcomed back displaced rohingya from refugee camps under discrete advice of china. funny thing is that it was them who assaulted and drove them out of the country in the first place (without presidential order because elected leaders have no control over military operations) to make DASSK look bad in the world media and to create religious conflicts between local muslim people and buddhist majority. Fortunately, the latter didnt happen but sadly, the former certainly blew up.
Heck yes more correlation between history and contemporary events gives me a more rounded understanding and more room for developing my personal point of view. Thanks great concise overview.
To everyone who watched this video.yes this is 100%accurate and we dont want to go back to dark era (Dictatorship).pls help us.spread this video.We need all the help we can get.
The coup was enabled by the international nation states. When they took back their humanitarian awards they signalled to the Military Junta that Aung San Suu Kyi no longer had international support. All of the international states have done more damage to Suu kyi's image than any General in Burma has. They undermined thirty years of effort and sacrifice so they could for reasons known only to them.. they wrongfully, indifferently, arrogantly, thoughtlessly, ignorantly and disproportionately blamed Suu kyi for 'not speaking out' enough for the Rohinga crisis. This ethnic crises was nuanced with issues, such as, Muslim insurgencies, violence by the military, and had been going on for many decades. The Generals made Suu Kyi the scapegoat - they duped the outside world - who naively blamed a woman peace laureate in her seventies and a few years in power, with a benign portfolio, for the atrocities carried out by the Generals. This was a betrayal of epic proportions by the following: Canada... who took back honorary citizenship... the UK.. with Oxford university council revoking Suu Kyi's awards - the London School of Economics ... Wlie Wiesal award in the US - a revocation of the Freedom of the Cit by Oxford St Huges College... and ill thought out comments and actions by Bob Geldoff - Amnesty International (revoking their awards) and South Korea. These countries and the organisations in them have empowered and emboldened the Junta - Military Generals in Burma to wrest back power from the people. The generals saw this as a huge opportunity to with impunity return to type - and the repression of ten years ago to once again be foisted by the people of Burma. It is the people of Burma that the international community ultimately hurt - and for that they ought to be ashamed for their hasty betrayal of Aung San Suu kyi who is overwhelmingly supported by the people of Burma and the Rohinga.
Thank you. You are the only one to attribute the atrocities against the Rohingya to the correct culprits, the military. The western main stream media had all been dog piling on Aung San Suu Kyi, while we, the people of Myanmar, knew that she was powerless to control what the military did. She had to stay silent or risk a military take over. As we see now, no matter how much the international community loves to say that they "condemn this coup", we are essentially on our own. No one will take military action and the UN is basically impotent. So now we are at the mercy of the military. Please keep spreading awareness so that hopefully the international pressure will grow enough to actually affect what the military does.
We must not fail. We surely will destroy those military tyrant scum! For the Republic! Our generations will remember these days as the last days of the Tyrants!
I am from Myanmar, and this video has a few errors. -Myanmar has never been a communist. It was a socialist. -The general must be resigned after 60 unless with a signed agreement from the President for an extension. Min Aung Hlaing's current position as a Chief of Staff is already expired once he turned 60 and this must be renewed before June 2021. But with no doubt Su Kyi's government will not give any extension to him. Without his status, he would just be an ordinary citizen, facing charges against genocide as well as multiple scandals & serious corruption within the country (his family is running more than dozens of businesses worth at least more than US$ 5 billions in value and billions of dollars kept in Chinese banks). These charges will likely end up with either a death penalty or life imprisonment, so he took a final route to drag the country along with him. But this coup is not over yet. There has been several protests and civil disobedient movements going on all over the country and it has been doing well. Plus, there has been an intense international pressure going on and not a single country recognizes them as a legitimate government, and they also desperately need money. Coup d'etat in this modern period is unacceptable.
@@josephdavis7189 communism by definition stateless, moneyless, classless or without government and class division. Socialism is transitional phase(also economic movement) trying to achieve communism. For that reason USSR or Soviet Union never called itself communist. They called itself socialist, I mean it's in the name the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Even their satellite states called themself socialist republic. My own country used to be soviet puppet state and it never called itself. Even in their own documents they never referred themselves as communist. Just think of communism as Utopian society that probably will never achieved. Socialism as USSR and Cuba one-party state ruled by communist party that is trying to achieve communism and implementing socialist principles such as taking private property and redistributing. People are just lazy use the right term. Linguistic mistakes are so fucking common. People are bad at terminology. Like people using elemental and natural interchangeably despite it means different things.
There's this fucked up part of the population that sympathizes with the military and even support the overthrow of the elected government. They've been celebrating the coup in their own sphere.
@@brokebloke45 Personally, I don’t support the military and I don’t support Suu Kyi. Why? Because first of all the “democratic” government that rose in 2010-2011 wasn’t a REAL democracy. As stated in the video and is correct by the way, that 1/4 of the parliament seats are occupied by the military. Meaning that the military hasn’t given up all their power yet. The military still have autonomy in the “civilian-elected” government. This can be considered a government that has never existed in the history of mankind: Democratic Dictatorship. Now, let’s move on to why I don’t support Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi has first and foremost sided with the military for all of their actions, including the genocide against the Rohingya and the ongoing civil war. People will say “Suu Kyi had no say in what the military does”. How ironic does that sound? She was the one who fought for democracy in 1988. And now she’s standing back? And watching innocent people die? Suu Kyi has clearly sided with the military last year at the ICC for atrocities against the Rohingya and look where it got her. You can say that Suu Kyi has gone more authoritarian since she came into office in 2015. As a Burmese, I don’t support Suu Kyi and the military and hope that another democratically-elected leader, who is genuine, will lead our country.
@@themagicpickle3546 You're partly right. Yes, it is true that democracy we got in 2010 wasn't real. But the constitution is written by the dictators in favor of dictators and their financial and political interests. There's no way people can get real democracy just in a snap like that. You can see how it's always been the same way with military holding as much power as they can if not absolute in the video. Regarding dassk, she's probably the best chance we got now and not for much longer. Several ethnicities are ready to leave the union and form their own states as soon as she is gone. Rohingya conflict is simply put a political sacrifice made by military to put international as well as national pressure. By doing so, people in western hemisphere who've been in favor of her for past decades suddenly turned against her. Not to mention well-timed appearance of Ma Ba Tha in the country as well. From moral highground point of view, there's so much flaws of course. But this country as a whole has already been so fucked up tbh, it will take years to even get to the point of just ok ..
@@brokebloke45 I agree that the 2008 constitution is written by the dictators, yes, but on the end note, Suu Kyi doesn’t represent democracy, the people represent democracy, not one person. And the same with the military as well, they don’t represent democracy, but the people. Don’t be confused, the NLD doesn’t represent the people. We have been saying that she’s “the best chance we’ve got” for a long time and look where it’s got us. At this point, we’re pretty much bowing down to her, if that’s not what you do to a dictator, I don’t know what is. You said that it’ll take years to fix this. I think the answer is pretty simple: Human Rights. We need to acknowledge the fact that all ethnic groups are the same and we should see them as people. If human rights is implemented into the system, it’ll go away more quicker than ever, Why? Because that’s what DEMOCRACY really is. If there’s no human rights than there’s no democracy, it’s as clear as it can get. NLD agreed with the military that the Rohingya are “illegal bengalis”, while they’ve lived in the country for a long time, since the day of Burmese kings. The Rohingya is a part of the Union not Bangladesh. Even U Nu said himself that they are citizens of Burma. It wasn’t until the military regime rose to power after U Nu was deposed in 1962 and the Rohingya are now known to be “foreigners” by the government and “illegal aliens”. They are stripped of their education and rights. If they were illegal immigrants (even though they’re not), would it be okay to exterminate them? No, it wouldn’t be. Every person has the right to live. And this has occurred during the military rule and the NLD government. The NLD has stood with the military on this occasion. Again, on the end note, the people represent democracy, not Suu Kyi, the NLD, or the military. Many other people are worthy of being in office than Suu Kyi. People are only blinded because she’s the daughter of a national hero, Aung San, but let me tell you this Aung San will always be way more honorable and respectable than Suu Kyi. Everybody represents democracy.
@@themagicpickle3546 Same here I don't like the lady but keeping her and her party in power will make it easier to progress towards better government later down the road which include slowly stripping power from military. If military keep resetting everything then myanmar will just be discount north korea.
Great video. I do have a little issue with the explanation of the Pagan/BE wars though - you characterised them as the BE invading when really it was a combination of pitched battles between a the Pagans, Arakans and Brits - history is more complex than ‘colonists bad’!
I really appreciate how you took the time to properly research and present information on this topic. The military takeover in myanmar has been sickening and it always been.
I am from Burma and still living in Burma. This is very helpful for international people to know more about the military's action upon democracy. We're still fighting for Democracy and still can't win even though we have been fighting since 1962. This time we will not pull back and as we scream ''THE REVOLUTION MUST WIN" Thanks alot for making this video.
I am from Myanmar and Today Millions are on the street Marching for justice and democracy. In Yangon where I live, at least 100,000 people went on the streets yst.
Military people just aren't the best administrators. Overwhelming force only leads to unbridled corruption and nepotism. History has shown that not even millions of dollars of foreign aid can maintain an unpopular military junta, after it becomes popular. The way I see it, time will only tell when the common people will unite against the junta.
@The Mad Baron The Prussians were more an exception rather than the norm, and in their case they never really deposed the civilian government, rather they had good administrator leaders such as Friedrich the Great and Otto von Bismarck, as well as the educated and highly-capable Prussian aristocracy, who managed mostly civilian affairs. What I meant above though was when military officials replace the government through coups. This kind of government almost always leads to corruption, nepotism or cronyism as the civilians have no means to fight the force possessed by the military; so the latter is free to do as it wishes to. Democracy always has a chance to lead to corruption and shadow rule by oligarchs, but the people are not left in the dark and can vote their leaders out. Admittably, it may not the best system there is, but it is the best we have for now, because the lives, freedoms and liberties of the people constitute the core of the decisions of the government unlike that of a dictatorship or military rule. Lastly, for every example similar to the Prussians, there are tens more that aren't; to wit: Pinochet of Argentina, Doe & Taylor of Liberia, Idi Amin of Uganda and Bokassa of CAR. I hope Myanmar goes back to civilian rule.
@The Mad Baron the problem is the plebs of modern society think they're hot shit. the oligarchs know this. the oligarchs aren't retards otherwise they wouldn't be in power. honestly the military here might be too harsh on their people but democracy isn't the answer. democracy is just idiot rule or rule of the majority which tends to be rule of lazy idiots. oligarchs love that.
First of, thanks for doing this video and as a person of Burmese descent who was born there, I can say that this video is well researched and unbiased. The only thing is that I was taught Ne Win was a Socialist, not a Communist. I am hopeful for Myanmar, and people shall win!!
Hi, I’m a Burmese. I found a lot of information about junta are inaccurate. I respect that you tried to tell our country story in a short amount of time but quite a lot of inaccurate information especially from 1962 and after.
Hello. Thanks for your interest and your explanations. However, I would like to add a few things that you seem to have oversimplified. For example, General Aung San joining the British back in the 1944 was mainly initiated by the japanese breaking their promises and even worse, the japanese started to oppress the people (such as rape, torture, forced labour, etc.). Well, they were facists anyway. So, there had been a resistance group called Anti-Fascist Organization (AFO) led and organized by General Aung San. But, you are right. Aung San decided to co-operate with the Allied forces to chase the japanese out of Burma. (perhaps you simplified it since it is not the objective of your video). Also, in 1988, there was a Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and in fact, I would like to point out that it is almost to the point of succeed. There have been some evidence about Nay Win requesting people to come back to work because many systems could collapse by that movement. This is what people in Burma are now trying to do (or at least request to many people who are still going to the work) other than the protests on the streets. There has been ample examples from the history that direct confrontation with the military proved to be bloodshed and tragic incidents. As a Burmese citizen, it is so disheartening to see the potential repeat of the dark history (like 1988). I really hope that there is a way out of all these excruciating situations in the end. Thanks for your time.
If only they tried democracy... Imagine the tourism potential, in a country half way between Thailand and India, on the coast with thousands of islands...
Being favored by the west. The military are hesitant to allow foreigners to gain influence in the country while Suu Kyi is more amenable to "friendship" with the west.
I agree. But she did bring many great changes to her country but not everyone was able to see it thanks to the military (I'm talking about the ethnic groups)
As a burmese, I think it's because she's always trying to solve the internal conflicts by using peaceful way even though almost 90% of citizens are on her side. I think you know what that means..
The fact that the military general had to launch a coup for some one stupid reason which is a law in myanmar where you get to retire at 65 as military general is so amazing.
the longer myanmar is under international sanctions and cut-off from outside world, the more china will profit from both upper-table and under-table deals with junta, which tends to be mostly in favor of china of course
Poruguese,italians,french were all used as soldiers in kingdoms of burma since the 15th century and when the second empire or taungoo empire emerged,used as canon Soldiers in royal burmese army.Over 500 desendants living in myanmar.Alot of them dies in the first anglo burmese war which the ignorant burmese king didnt let british trade ports open and inavded the regions behind assam rebellion.
Thanks for doing this video, I’d always known that Ne Win ran one of the very few Socialist military dictatorships (the only others I can think of are Poland from 1981 to 83 and Portugal from 1975 to 76, both of which were much more brief). The army’s roots as Communist rebels in WWII makes it all come together much clearer now. It seems the army, despite turning classicalist since 1988, still leans in favor of Communist China, despite the fact that all the original Burmese Communist rebels are now dead, and the fact that China supports the two breakaway republics on Myanmar’s claimed territory (Wa and Kachin) which are Chinese Communist puppet states. Myanmar really has one of the most unique militaries in the world in terms of politics, and this creates a unique power dynamic where pro-American conservative democrats struggle for any scrap of power against the now nominally classicalist, but still pro-CCP, military.
12:02 I mean... With a name like "State Law and Order Restoration Council", it's inevitable that they'd go overboard. So many unnecessary deaths. Wishing Myanmar good luck ✊🏾
I wanna say i am burmese and there is military rules we cant leave 8PM to 5 AM if we leave we get shot and other thing is they block our wifi and fb and i. Using mobile network this is very bad here we need help there is also china and russia in burma idk what they doing we need help
@@tristanbackup2536bad thing that they will shot when they know i doing this they try to cut connect with ouside world and killing the people they dont like
I had the privilege of living in Myanmar and learning there language this past year and I just want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing Myanmar history, though complex, and it's diverse culture. International Community: Myanmar wants/needs your help. Read more, talk more, and write to your representatives that your country support The People of Myanmar. Not the rich, selfish, and deadly leaders that now, officially said f*** democracy (in which they puppeteered). Please support the NLD, even if you do not support Aung Sung Su Kyi. THANK YOU. All on behalf of close friends in Mawlamyine, Myanmar (:
My great grandfather was in the same room when Aung San was assassinated. He survived because he managed to escape by jumping out of a window next to him.
@@brobroman425 Its possible. My grandfather was a karen rebel fighting the myanmar military in karen state. He retired after getting grenade shrapnel lodged into his spine. Sneaked into yangon to raise a family.
Nowhere near an expert, but I feel that the installation of Aung Sun Suu Kyi's as "State Counsellor" was a huge part of the problem. There is (for valid reasons) a cult of personality around her but that is a dangerous precedent and direction for a developing country. I feel they should have just left her as a party member and mouth-piece and been more patient for change.
That's pretty close to the mark. ASSK always swore she had no intention to become president, but as soon as the opportunity presented itself she grabbed as much power as she could. Initially she had 3 different portfolios (cabinet level positions) but had to finally settle for one. She made a good resistance leader but a poor political leader as defacto head of government. The army has never liked her but has to defer to her father's position as an important national symbol. And her father was himself a controversial figure who made a lot of enemies in his short life.
@@ronagoodwell2709 you cant exactly say she grabbed power when there is hardly anything to grab, with the military having total control and secrecy over key ministries like defense. She took the place of State Counselor because if she took the place of president, the military will use the law where a politician cannot be married to foreigners to oust her since she has a British husband. She cannot be just a party member, because she is the face of the party that acts as the insurance to the different ethnic groups and forty different ethnic armed forces in myanmar. The military would find fault with the president if she was not there to act as the other leader. She had 3 portfolios initially but even then, she only took the salary of less than one because of how understaffed it was and also as a placeholder so that the military wont get any funny ideas about taking them and when she had people, she let them take over, no fuss. You wont know her plans till the very end tbh because only under her rule, did all 15 permanent and non permanent members of UN agree unanimously on condemning the coup. Even stubborn veto powers like China and Russia. She cannot speak out against the military because she had no power in the first place. Not only that, all key ministries like defense were under the military so it has been an absolute nightmare trying to open an investigation against the military. What would ended up happening if she spoke out too soon is the military will take over the NLD, assassinate or execute the democratic government over defamation charges. And if that happens, good luck getting anything done against the military because they aint giving no shits just like they giving no shits when the Karen genocide was happening till now ( I doubt u even know about the Karen genocide huh} . Speaking whatever u want is the luxury of the outside world with a constitution that protects your free speech. You do not have to bear the repercussions and consequences of falling into the traps made by the military. Even now, all 15 of UN key members condemn the military and wants the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the other leaders!
this coup was the military's attempt at trying to repeat 1988 crackdown. But it hasnt been working. dog Min Aung Hlaing is scared because he is the one masterminding the Rohingya genocide and one of the government objective was to follow the direction of the ICJ to investigate and charge those responsible for the genocide. knowing that he must retire by 65, he is well aware that the investigations will fall on him once he is disconnected from his military rank and position.
@@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600 yet for as little as she can get Kyi still manage to run the civilian portion of the government like she’s a dictator. She filled all cabinet members with only loyalist without consideration of personal qualifications. I mean two cabinet minister in Kyi administration have fake college degree. Kyi effectively control executive branch of the government with her cult of personality which also extend its influence to the legislative branch. Any legislator that vote against the party line will be quickly dismissed and thus no real check and balance exist in Kyi’s civillian administration. Not to mention that Kyi benefits greatly from the military era censorship law in suppressing opposition even tho this kind of law is what she promised to get rid off. And let’s not forget her denial of Rohingya genocide
@@oakoakoak2219 Every Burmese knows that NLD isnt perfect. We only look out for DASSK. There is no other party that is able to go against the military and without the face of DASSK, there would be no unified support in the ethnic groups. furthermore, most of the other parties are military owned. the civilian portion of government is NOT enough to overturn the rigged constitution . So imagine if she introduce members with unverified loyalties. There would be no agreeing on anything. Think about why thai military also hard to kick out. If the King can give order to crackdown with les majeste laws, what makes you think the military is not trying to trap Aung San Suu Kyi with defamation charges? Until the constitution is changed, no real democracy is guaranteed
I think people try to oversimplify the story in Myanmar. The simplest way to put it, while remaining truthful, is that the country has been ruled by the military right up to the present. A few years ago the military decided to share power with civilian politicians, but they are making an adjustment to that right now. The military has been in charge for pretty much all of the last roughly 60 years.
Literally, our republic is under influence by First Order for a generation.
Oh well, we must save ourselves.
...From Myanmar.
Best of luck from a Southeast Asian neighbor. People are trying hard to keep the military in check here too
I have a simpler way: socialism bad.
@@Jordan-Ramses Oh shut up with the propaganda. The military doesn’t care about political affiliation otherwise you would know that there’s multiple military juntas in Africa and south asia that have nothing to do with socialism.
@@Alex-wk1jv - are we? Or is it you who are brainwashed?
Fans: Hey can you cover some modern history?
Hilbert: What time frame would you want me to cover?
Fans: Anything after WW1 is cool?
Hilbert: Ok I'll do last week.
PS Great video
LOL (also great video)
Love the character design. I’m surprised that I’m not subscribed
I mean he covered the history of Myanmar before that. Tho good comment lol
@@themolepeople955 Hilbert is my fave history channel anywhere.
Very good history lesson.
My great grandfather is 85 years old. He was born in 1936. He faced the English era, then the Japanese, English again, after the independence era, Ne win era, 1988 era, after the 1988 era, 2008-2015 era. He has many great historical stories that he remembers and tells me about! Some of his stories are a little different from what is Hilbert talking about but still, this video is 99.8% accurate! Also, Ne win wasn't a communist! He was Socialist! Also, Aung San Suu Kyi did many great things to the country that the military wasn't able to do in decades. Westerners cant see ASSK and her party do great things because of the military! *Btw I live in Myanmar and born here! Situations are getting terrible! So send help if you can before communications and internet blackout again!*
For the Republic!
For Democracy!
I'm sorry bro I hope your people get out from under the military some day 🙏🏻
Let's hope things go well Burma this time!
The people from the United States stand with you
Bet you wish the British were there again
That was very helpful. Can't imagine how the people of Burma have endured. Thanks for bringing some clarity to this crazy difficult situation. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
If you search the hashtag SaveMyanmar you'll see videos of people protesting as well as other updates. The military ordered ISPs to block Facebook, but people used VPNs, or else switched en-masse to Twitter. Now the military has shut down The Internet it seems.
@George Querelle Karens and Kachins have suffered worse and longer than Rohingy
I'm from Myanmar Thank you so much :)
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s I've been wondering if this will escalate fighting with The Kachin and resume fighting with The Karen. I've also wondered how The Shan might respond to this. Do you think we could end up seeing a North-and-Eastern coalition oppose Naypyidaw?
@@WaterShowsProd They already resumed fighting with Karens before the coup.
Even then, the military buys new weapons and equipment from China, Russia, and Israel. The rebel armies don't stand a chance. The only way they can inflict damage is total chaos through terrorism like ISIS. But they wont since theyre not terrorists
The army charged the State Counsellor for "illegally owning walkie talkies". What a joke.
An excuse of a kid
*hey old man, I told you to get a license for those walkie talkies...*
Walkies talkies with the direct frequency with her boyfriend?
it's so weird to see other burmese people speaks english so perfectly when most of burmese people only speaks basic english
The entire military is a joke except it's not funny but rather atrocious and stupid.
Awesome to see you're taking up current events for a change! Would love to see more journalistic items !!
Thank you for the feedback! It's been a good time for it in the last few weeks!
@@historywithhilbert keep up the good work.
Save myanmar pls 😥😥😥😥😥
@Uncle Ho let's be honest, people like you will be among those that will criticize the west if they show interest in the Thailand that you are talking about.
ruclips.net/video/9lWWEeQLzH0/видео.html
Well Hilbert is not doing history any more he is now Modern News With Hilbert
It's sneaky history in the guise of Modern News ;)
@@historywithhilbert Maybe this time Hilbert but I'm watching you
the way I see it with history I've studied at least is that it's like politics of the past so modern world news/politics seems to fit well for a history channel
thats what bugs me about the news. they pretend that violence etc just came out of nowhere when in reality a lot of current conflicts go way back and a lot of "crazy out of nowhere news" could be explained
The most minor details of the present, can be the greatest plot twists of the future. Every event has some form of significance.
The country is beautiful, but the people are struggling with their politics.
@@collinspecht6725 Abundance brings people, people compete, and competition breeds power dynamics. Then again, my country is beautiful and it ain't so bad. Home is where the heart is I guess.
@@collinspecht6725: Russia. I love Russia. Probably one of my favourite countries I have ever visited. Would love to go back. Such a beautiful and extremely unique country mixed with various different cultures and ethnicities. However the politics of that country is again like you say, incredibly corrupt.
@@tigervalley62 yea and they’re protesting in Russia also because of politics
Struggling or Assertive?
@Jacob Wilson We should thank God for putin...
I swear any modern issues or wars aleays start with "the French or British wanted colonize"
True
Middle east, Africans fighting eachother
@Shimmy Shai lol, no
And USA Spain Russia
bruh its a continuation of where they left off that was put on hold when said colonizers showed up.
you think they were just getting along in the most idealized world you can think of?
lmao fuck bro you're funny.
As someone who is Burmese I thank you for shining light and spreading the word.
Man I wish these kinda things would be more publicly reported on. Without this video I literally wouldn’t have known that Myanmar had literally just fallen to a military junta.
calm down at least it's not a military dictatorship.
@@FazeParticles but they're trying to be dictators again, and we, The citizens of Myanmar are trying to Stop these SCUMS of human beings from rising up again
Good ol mainstream media for ya! TG for YT
@@FazeParticles It is actually terrifying. I live in Myanamar and I don't live near the cities(isolated place) but they just shoot 7 years old kids across the street
@@legoworthiness9684 is there any guerrillas fighting back?
It's not just the Rohingya, they're just the easiest to report on because their home state and the refugee camps in Bangladesh are open to journalists. Kachin State and Shan State both have similar problems, but they're rugged and closed to journalists.
Now we,citizens of Myanmar, come to know who is the culprit for those genocide crimes.
Our own grand army has betrayed us and commited crime at the frontier we cannot see.
Now they are upon us.
We are fighting against the evil government that killed innocent people. Y don't people get it?
@@pinkfluffylama29 Because the Rohingya genocide has so far been supported by the populace. That calls any claims of "fighting for those who can't" immediately into question. Why did you (abstract you, meaning the people of Myanmar) not fight to end the oppression of the Rohingya whilst the country was still "democratic"?
@@Oujouj426 Actually have u ever wondered why media show only one side of the story,which is Rohingya but not the other side which is Rakhine people,who are also suffering too?Doesn't story has to look into from both perspectives if there's two people/group involved in it?Just a little reminder ,don't fully believe what the media says all the time.If u truly want to know the real truth,research yourself or go experience yourself to that country cause you can never know what's actually happening behind the curtains.
@@Ashley-sc1oh I am aware of terrorist acts by the Rohingya. But that pales in comparison to what is done to them, and the oppression is what facilitates the resistance. My own country resisted a larger power in the 90s, I aware of media spinning, which is why I do not care for any victim blaming like this.
Some fun facts about Myanmar: the Burmese term for the USDP and their political/paramilitary groups is "Chat Putt" or "Monitor Lizard" or sometimes we call them "lizards" in English.
Is their base at the triangulum of the flat globe?
mark zuckeg- nvm
We call the "Phoot" to be exact. We want to sound it as insulting as possible. And it sounds something between the sound of blowing your snot off or puking.
@@Suesserto_000 Couldn't have put it better myself. Though now, there's the 5000 Kyats for the pro-military groups who are paid (5000 Kyat or roughly 3.5 USD per day) to commit violence on their behalf.
Calling someone a monitor lizard is a big boy insult in all south east Asia. I find them adorable 😂😂 the lizards that is
Myanmar: Democracy™ time!
Military: Your trial version of Democracy™ has run out
This joke was shamelessly stolen
You got this from Countryballs Reddit, didn’t you?
Reddit moment
@@gamebawesome I thought it was polandballs?
I don't know about countryballs, but maybe I'm wrong.
r/polandball is great, eh?
@@joshuakevinserdan9331 They're the same
I feel so ashamed as a Myanmar citizen when people claimed us as ethnic cleansing and genoside supporters. Truth to be told, We didn’t even get any information about it from our social media or our national television channels. I swear on my life we didn’t know about Rohingyas than we ignored them. And our Leader, Su Kyi, denied this bcoz military is at her neck, in my opinion, the coup is also sooner or later. I really hope people know military was the real culprit behind the curtains. Again, I apologize as a Myanmar citizen for not hearing out on minority voices and to all the Muslin community all over the world. I’m ashamed. May Law Ka Nat bless our Country during this coup de’tat. We just want to be free.
We Burmans didn't have information technology and we were very ignorance about everything
Don't forget how the government also likes to target other ethnic groups such as the Chin, and especially KAREN. It's important for Bamar people to know this.
What happened after the coup? Who is fighting who right now ?
@@infinitelighthouse
tl;dr
everyone vs coup
"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to Liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington's Farewell Address.
WTF that mean? do you even know?
@@FirstLast-hg1ez well it mean if the military is too damn large the people’s liberty can be under threat. Like you know the American military industrial complex
@@adammazeli you are naive af and don’t understand anything about geopolitics. The attitude you express is cheered by Chairman Xi
Then in 2021 we have a president sworn in a capital city under military lockdown
@@TheLocalLt and your views are applauded by the state department and military industrial complex. China historically couldn’t ever invade anything past its neighbors, let alone America. If they ever try to take over Taiwan it’ll be politically, not militarily. The issue of sinophobia is now fashionable because neolibs/neocons are running out of boogeymen to portray in fake news media
Great video. Have you ever visited this country? I remember visiting it in 2016. Tourism was just coming up at that time. It really felt like being on the unbeaten track.
Since you're always putting a lot of effort in pronunciation, Burmese money KYAT is pronunced as "CHAT" or "TSJAT" or something like that. And as for the "Pagan Kingdom". I assume it's pronounced the same as the city of Bagan, which goes like: "Pah-gaan". If that makes any sense. Of there are Burmese viewers they can hopefully make it more clear. Again, great you bring attention to this!
You are mostly correct. Pagan is indeed pronounced as Ba gaan . Also kyat sounds closer to the combination of Ca-yat in one sound.
Just opening to tourism??? Um...your like 20 years too late. You could have visited Myanmar in the 90s easy
HISTORY HUSTLEEE! Good to see you here.
"Citizens of Kyrat, this is an announcement from the ministry of public affairs and social harmony..."😏
tfw I turn Kyrat into a dictatorial narco-state because I want to get laid with Amita.
That sounds ominously familiar....
I’m having traumatic flashbacks from the City of Pain 😖
@@Neseku What about Don't look down(Where you don't have your knife)
OMG REAL LIFE JUST LIKE MY BIDEO GAME
First time viewer here from Myanmar. Thank you for the first ever objective video I watched on RUclips about Myanmar published by a foreigner.
One notable thing though. The architect of the move to appoint Saw Aung San Su Kyi as the state councilor is called U Ko Ni. He was assassinated shortly after the move and ring leaders behind his assassination were never found.
@@sid2112 Yep. We just hope that the price won't be too bloody. And people in our country know we have to rely on just ourselves because let's be honest, UN and international pressure is pretty useless.
@@aeinyuki8415 :/ yeah...
Does the drug trade have a role in this mess?
@@martinphilip8998 kinda hard to say because the drug trade leaders are powerful rebels but they sometimes co operate with the military so its really hard to say yes or no...
@@aeinyuki8415 Well you might be wrong about other nations getting involved because Biden is now talking about it
THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS. WE’RE CURRENTLY TAKING UP ON THE STREETS TO PROTEST AND JUST HAD 24 HOURS WITHOUT INTERNET SO PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT OUR COUNTRYS CONDITION. MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE AT STAKE AND WE DONT KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN
Wishing you all the best. Please take care, love from the UK
Best of luck to you all freedom for all
Take up arms if it comes to it, brother. If they will not give you freedom, you'll have to take it from them.
We had to do the same thing from the British in 1776...as well as numerous nations and people had before then as well.
Just be sure to have a sizable group BEFORE you go storming the capital
At least you don't have Biden as ur president lol
@@robbiejohnston9409 did you just tell a guy who’s internet was cut off by the military he’s lucky not to have a stable democracy? wow dude
"there has always been a coup in Myanmar"
In summary yes
Yeah, when my mother told me that a military coup d'etat happened in Myanmar, I said: "When did the last military coup end?"
@09ธนกฤต บุตรสระเกษ more in Thailand actually. I think Thailand is the country that since last century had more coups in the entire world ! I was already living in Thailand in 2014 when the last one happened. Yellow shirts are a bunch of conservative yes man to the classical power.
Thailand: Hold my Chayen
@@MauricioRomanovyeah the coup never ends
Hilbert posts a video, can't click on it fast enough! And it is about another country I don't know much about. DOUBLE BONUS!!!
Awesome thanks for watching man! I've been enjoying looking at some countries I don't know so much about so I'm glad you're liking the new direction as well!
@@historywithhilbert I enjoy both the new and the old. Keep up the good work
"Pagan" is pronounced like "Puh-gun" not like the English word "pagan" (pay-gen)
Poo gun
It's also spelled Bagan in some cases. "Bagan" is the word for garden in several South Asian languages.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Yes that's what they actually called it back then
@@dtapx5835 lmao
It’s Bagan actually
Thank you for making this video. As a myanmar citizen we need alot of awareness from around the word. Our internet and phone connectivity are keen to be shut down without any notice so this kind of video help up spread the word that the military had forcefully taken our democracy and put us under their dictatorship.
Have visited Myanmar. It’s a beautiful country. But it’s suffered greatly under it’s rulers. The British raj was no picnic either with tens of thousands dying in the Saya San rebellion as I recall.
200k-1 million died in ww2
I really like these "how did/does the Past shape/explain the Present" videos. Keep 'em coming, Hilbert!
This is an incredibly well researched and well presented video. Thank you.
I do want to add that the Pagan In Pagan Kingdom is pronounced “Ba -Gaaan”. I think they have changed the spelling to Bagan now to avoid confusion with Paganism.
Again, well done with this video!
Interesting deep dive into what is happening in Myanmar. Keep it up, your interest in history gives an important perspective to the events that are taking place today.
My grandad was a royal marine commando Chindit in Burma during the Second World War he was with Gurkhas and living behind enemy lines for two years and made it back to carry on loving his family and grandchildren ♥️♥️ and was awarded a Gurkha knife and the Burmese star for his service 4th commando Ronald Henry Wensley RIP ♥️
This is the best history video about Burma I have watched. Every other video about modern Burmese history has left me with more questions then answers.
These political events with historical context are good!
the aerobics lady who accidentally recoreded it: 💃💃💃
Yup. ..I am glad my country got a little famous by a meme.
@@mingthan7028 dope.
Let's vibe with Video after we win
DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION
xd
What do you mean?
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi actually returned to nurse her dying mother but was pushed into spotlight when she witnessed the 8888 uprising and joined the cause.
She turned a blind eye to the rohyngia massacre
@@ffmmain8673 She sure did not bro. We have to accept that not all Bengali Rohingya deserve citizenship.
Hello, I am in Myanmar and I am extremely grateful that you made this video. As now, we have unreliable connections time to time and there are many protest while many are peaceful sometimes some are violent.
So glad you are touching upon Myanmar 🇲🇲 and its history as it is not often talked about almost anywhere. It's really has a interesting history with its culture and various people actually.
How to control a country?
Answer: *Guns*
Hence why the people have guns, so that they may control their own country.
Unless you have the fbi that attacks and arrest anyone who they disagree with. Blm can attack the White House but people who protest elections are terrorists
@@garyoakham9723 to my knowledge the CIA is much shadier
It's True
@@garyoakham9723 o shit like who did they arrest
Get independence of the UK, become a colony of your own army
First came the Empire,
Then came the First Order,. ..
Then came the Separatist wars. ...
Now. ..Order417
Oh well. .my country is literally star wars.
Yes
It did and it does.
It was and it is.
Oof
The civil wars started because the British intentionally divided the country for a century. The military junta grew because of civil wars. Their Devide and Rule policy tore our country apart. We are still trying to patch it up. Everything is Cause and Effect.
@@htetpainghtun8151 If there are people trying to leave your country and become their own thing, they should be allowed to do so.
Smaller countries, smaller armies, smaller the amount of wealth governments can parasite to exist, smaller the chance of a dictatorship taking power.
I had a guy at my school who was a transfer student from Myanmar and got to know him well. He told me his family were mainly politicians or part of the military....at the time I had no idea the implications of the latter
So you met with a silver spoon Burmese?
Was he obnoxious?
Damm 😂
My Grandfather who was Indian at the time (Now he's Pakistani) had a job in the capital Rangoon. He had to leave his job and move back to India cause of the Japanese Invasion
As a civilian of Burma born in 1990s, I assure you that this would be the last great fight we endure. We deserve the long overdue democracy and there would be blood shed in the coming days. But we won't give up as we trust that United Nations will not stand by and watch us being killed by the ruthless military. Times have changed, Power comes from the People. And I believe this is the revolution we always hoped for better or worse. Wish us luck.
Yh but China and Russia just blocked UN
Thank you for the contact. The information in here are pretty accurate. I live in myanmar and a citizen and i’m sick of the injustice the army have been doing so far. They are now arresting everyone who stands in their way and violence against the peaceful protesters.
I learned more about my country history in this video more than the history class in school.
That's why historical class book are boring.
Just black and white, and gray.
Nothing significant visualization.
@@mingthan7028
All I remember from history text books Is that I drew in them
almost all history classes in school are very bias and often misrepresent stuff to suit the political system, its reason why my country Lebanon have no history lesson about the civil war because no one won it, and so which version would u like to tell coz there like more then 12 faction.
History books in classrooms are heavily edited. I didn’t learn the real history of my own country until I volunteered at the national Uni library. But these books might also be bias , who knows
@@NovaHeardOfEm "who's been drawing dicks!?"
thank you so much for covering this, im a karen native that lives in the us and im pretty concerned with the country, again thank you for making this video
Great video. Loved the mix of currents events with history background. Very informative, looking forward to more. Politics, world events, history all welcomed and encouraged
I am Myanmar National.
This is one of the best videos i have ever seen on RUclips!
Very accurate and precise.
Some additional notes:
When the government announced the country as Buddhist Country, this upset many ethnic people,
which led to many armed forces.
The military leaders are the one that always commit genocides.
Again, thank you for the video.
PS: Subscribed!
You don't know what you are talking about do you?
We people are not giving up. Aung san su kyi had done her job. She had shown what the people could have without dictatorship. I hope that what my parents faced what i felt in past doesnt continue for the future generations.
(and then Aung arrested people who reported on genocide and denies genocide is happening)
@@erichayes8445 it wasnt her orders,it was the military doing stuff in her name
@@erichayes8445The question "who killed Rohingya "have several different answers.Do u know what Aung San Su Kyi can't do anything in those years because of Military . Military is taking power in those days. Militart arrested many people who report about Rohingya not Aung San Su Kyi.
@@valdmenshikov9687 she still denied it on live TV thus making her complicate it's just like how the people who knew about the holocaust and did nothing about the holocaust and denied the holocaust in germany's government are still responsible for the holocaust
@@harry-m645 the military is ofc doing it but she still denied it on live TV making her complicate, just like the german government officials who denied the holocaust and did nothing about the holocaust are still responsible for the holocaust
Thanks for speaking up about this. Myanmar was never free from the clutches of the Millitary Junta.
I always taught my cousins about Burma and how there was a war that's been going on since 1947 I think? I always talked about how barely nobody covered the war or story until now when a coup happens. I remember telling my cousins how bad the stability was there and how something could happen, and look at what happened now.
Great video Hilbert 😎 really appreciate some context to the current events in Myanmar. Would love to see more of these current events contextualized.
Thank you for the update, my parents are from Burma and my aunt used to live there, she lives in a apartment a few feet away from us but we can take a walk there, and my parents watched this, they still are on the Tv but love from Monmouth
I liked this video, but there’s only one thing I see as an error. Ne Win’s regime was not communist in the sense we think of. When he rose to power, he declared that Burma would become a “socialist” state under an ideology that would be called the Burmese Way to Socialism. This became the ideology of the Burma Socialist Program Party. It mixed aspects of Marxism and Buddhism, but did not wish to establish a communist society.
🤣 It doesn't matter. Socialism is cancer whatever form it takes, because it goes against human nature. All forms of Socialism are a denial or reality.. that's why they are so authoritarian, because they have to use state power to enforce it! As you said yourself, it's an 'ideology'. Get a grip! 🤣
Ne Win actually seized power twice. The first time in a "national emergency" where he promised to return power to civilian rule after a year. (Sound familiar?) That was in 1960. He refused to step down after the year was over and launched, essentially, a coup against himself in 1962. That's why I'm skeptical of the current claim of the army to return power in a year. BTW Ne Win was seriously crazy. He finally proved to be an embarrassment to the army. Hence Saw Maung's coup against him in 1988. Ne Win died under house arrest and under, some would say, mysterious circumstances in 2002. Ne Win's protege, Khin Nyunt, became spy chief under later dictator General Than Shwe. And so it goes....
@@sunnyjim1355 Not all socialist ideologies are authoritarian, a lot of socialists actually favor liberal democracy within a social ownership framework, this is because the socialist movement, just like any movements out there, is divided and split among ideological lines, particularly between libertarians and authoritarians.
One thing that you can look at is how the Bolshevik prosecuted Nestor Makno's anarchists and other democratic socialists during the Russian civil war.
@@sunnyjim1355 What's human nature? Do you know about all the non-authoritarian, libertarian socialist societies? What do you think an ideology is?
@@sunnyjim1355 you mean the human nature that people lived under for thousands of years before civilization existed? That was a communist society btw.
I'm a burmese and that's pretty much happening right now. We are protesting to show our wills against the military coup.
I hope your new government can atleast control the Royinga situation becuase Cases are surging in Bangladesh, my home country and millions are dying by the previous government.
🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
@@DebsStuffs Thanks. We hope too. Also the leader of the current coup did pretty much all of that. That's why we can not accept this situation. The world has to know this evil. Please share and help us.
@@DebsStuffs Regarding that, the Junta has welcomed back displaced rohingya from refugee camps under discrete advice of china. funny thing is that it was them who assaulted and drove them out of the country in the first place (without presidential order because elected leaders have no control over military operations) to make DASSK look bad in the world media and to create religious conflicts between local muslim people and buddhist majority. Fortunately, the latter didnt happen but sadly, the former certainly blew up.
@@brokebloke45 ok good to hear. Thanks
Let us hope that, one day, Myanmar successfully makes the transitions to democracy
Here's to hoping!
Sadly that is very unlikely but all we can do is hope that freedom will prevail
Yeah, just so democracy can bring them right back to this point. Democracy at it's core is a ticking time bomb. Nothing more.
We can always bomb their military out of existence.
Doesn't work with multikulti, they'll just balkanize eventually
Thanks for covering this part of history!!!! it was much needed.
Heck yes more correlation between history and contemporary events gives me a more rounded understanding and more room for developing my personal point of view. Thanks great concise overview.
Holding hands with Obama and Hillary, how hilariously ironic.
Why is no one talking about this? It's critical.
To everyone who watched this video.yes this is 100%accurate and we dont want to go back to dark era (Dictatorship).pls help us.spread this video.We need all the help we can get.
The coup was enabled by the international nation states. When they took back their humanitarian awards they signalled to the Military Junta that Aung San Suu Kyi no longer had international support. All of the international states have done more damage to Suu kyi's image than any General in Burma has. They undermined thirty years of effort and sacrifice so they could for reasons known only to them.. they wrongfully, indifferently, arrogantly, thoughtlessly, ignorantly and disproportionately blamed Suu kyi for 'not speaking out' enough for the Rohinga crisis. This ethnic crises was nuanced with issues, such as, Muslim insurgencies, violence by the military, and had been going on for many decades. The Generals made Suu Kyi the scapegoat - they duped the outside world - who naively blamed a woman peace laureate in her seventies and a few years in power, with a benign portfolio, for the atrocities carried out by the Generals. This was a betrayal of epic proportions by the following: Canada... who took back honorary citizenship... the UK.. with Oxford university council revoking Suu Kyi's awards - the London School of Economics ... Wlie Wiesal award in the US - a revocation of the Freedom of the Cit by Oxford St Huges College... and ill thought out comments and actions by Bob Geldoff - Amnesty International (revoking their awards) and South Korea. These countries and the organisations in them have empowered and emboldened the Junta - Military Generals in Burma to wrest back power from the people. The generals saw this as a huge opportunity to with impunity return to type - and the repression of ten years ago to once again be foisted by the people of Burma. It is the people of Burma that the international community ultimately hurt - and for that they ought to be ashamed for their hasty betrayal of Aung San Suu kyi who is overwhelmingly supported by the people of Burma and the Rohinga.
Dude, really great content. Thanks for helping to understand current events!
Thanks for the detailed analysis of my country’s history! Love your work ❤️
Thank you. You are the only one to attribute the atrocities against the Rohingya to the correct culprits, the military.
The western main stream media had all been dog piling on Aung San Suu Kyi, while we, the people of Myanmar, knew that she was powerless to control what the military did. She had to stay silent or risk a military take over.
As we see now, no matter how much the international community loves to say that they "condemn this coup", we are essentially on our own. No one will take military action and the UN is basically impotent. So now we are at the mercy of the military.
Please keep spreading awareness so that hopefully the international pressure will grow enough to actually affect what the military does.
From Myanmar,
Well researched and well said.
#SaveMyanmar
Kinda cool how in a few years this will be history technically...
We must not fail.
We surely will destroy those military tyrant scum!
For the Republic!
Our generations will remember these days as the last days of the Tyrants!
we are crurrently living history, and the future has its eyes on us
So we must fight for every inch we can get
Thanks for this. Very helpful.
Love it when history is connected to modern events, many times history is ignored when talking about modern events.
I am from Myanmar, and this video has a few errors.
-Myanmar has never been a communist. It was a socialist.
-The general must be resigned after 60 unless with a signed agreement from the President for an extension. Min Aung Hlaing's current position as a Chief of Staff is already expired once he turned 60 and this must be renewed before June 2021. But with no doubt Su Kyi's government will not give any extension to him. Without his status, he would just be an ordinary citizen, facing charges against genocide as well as multiple scandals & serious corruption within the country (his family is running more than dozens of businesses worth at least more than US$ 5 billions in value and billions of dollars kept in Chinese banks). These charges will likely end up with either a death penalty or life imprisonment, so he took a final route to drag the country along with him.
But this coup is not over yet. There has been several protests and civil disobedient movements going on all over the country and it has been doing well. Plus, there has been an intense international pressure going on and not a single country recognizes them as a legitimate government, and they also desperately need money. Coup d'etat in this modern period is unacceptable.
It was communist.
@@josephdavis7189 communism by definition stateless, moneyless, classless or without government and class division. Socialism is transitional phase(also economic movement) trying to achieve communism. For that reason USSR or Soviet Union never called itself communist. They called itself socialist, I mean it's in the name the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Even their satellite states called themself socialist republic. My own country used to be soviet puppet state and it never called itself. Even in their own documents they never referred themselves as communist. Just think of communism as Utopian society that probably will never achieved. Socialism as USSR and Cuba one-party state ruled by communist party that is trying to achieve communism and implementing socialist principles such as taking private property and redistributing. People are just lazy use the right term. Linguistic mistakes are so fucking common. People are bad at terminology. Like people using elemental and natural interchangeably despite it means different things.
I thought a coup involved people walking around a government building while taking selfies.
There's this fucked up part of the population that sympathizes with the military and even support the overthrow of the elected government. They've been celebrating the coup in their own sphere.
@@brokebloke45 Personally, I don’t support the military and I don’t support Suu Kyi. Why? Because first of all the “democratic” government that rose in 2010-2011 wasn’t a REAL democracy. As stated in the video and is correct by the way, that 1/4 of the parliament seats are occupied by the military. Meaning that the military hasn’t given up all their power yet. The military still have autonomy in the “civilian-elected” government. This can be considered a government that has never existed in the history of mankind: Democratic Dictatorship. Now, let’s move on to why I don’t support Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi has first and foremost sided with the military for all of their actions, including the genocide against the Rohingya and the ongoing civil war. People will say “Suu Kyi had no say in what the military does”. How ironic does that sound? She was the one who fought for democracy in 1988. And now she’s standing back? And watching innocent people die? Suu Kyi has clearly sided with the military last year at the ICC for atrocities against the Rohingya and look where it got her. You can say that Suu Kyi has gone more authoritarian since she came into office in 2015. As a Burmese, I don’t support Suu Kyi and the military and hope that another democratically-elected leader, who is genuine, will lead our country.
@@themagicpickle3546 You're partly right. Yes, it is true that democracy we got in 2010 wasn't real. But the constitution is written by the dictators in favor of dictators and their financial and political interests. There's no way people can get real democracy just in a snap like that. You can see how it's always been the same way with military holding as much power as they can if not absolute in the video. Regarding dassk, she's probably the best chance we got now and not for much longer. Several ethnicities are ready to leave the union and form their own states as soon as she is gone. Rohingya conflict is simply put a political sacrifice made by military to put international as well as national pressure. By doing so, people in western hemisphere who've been in favor of her for past decades suddenly turned against her. Not to mention well-timed appearance of Ma Ba Tha in the country as well. From moral highground point of view, there's so much flaws of course. But this country as a whole has already been so fucked up tbh, it will take years to even get to the point of just ok ..
@@brokebloke45 I agree that the 2008 constitution is written by the dictators, yes, but on the end note, Suu Kyi doesn’t represent democracy, the people represent democracy, not one person. And the same with the military as well, they don’t represent democracy, but the people. Don’t be confused, the NLD doesn’t represent the people. We have been saying that she’s “the best chance we’ve got” for a long time and look where it’s got us. At this point, we’re pretty much bowing down to her, if that’s not what you do to a dictator, I don’t know what is. You said that it’ll take years to fix this. I think the answer is pretty simple: Human Rights. We need to acknowledge the fact that all ethnic groups are the same and we should see them as people. If human rights is implemented into the system, it’ll go away more quicker than ever, Why? Because that’s what DEMOCRACY really is. If there’s no human rights than there’s no democracy, it’s as clear as it can get. NLD agreed with the military that the Rohingya are “illegal bengalis”, while they’ve lived in the country for a long time, since the day of Burmese kings. The Rohingya is a part of the Union not Bangladesh. Even U Nu said himself that they are citizens of Burma. It wasn’t until the military regime rose to power after U Nu was deposed in 1962 and the Rohingya are now known to be “foreigners” by the government and “illegal aliens”. They are stripped of their education and rights. If they were illegal immigrants (even though they’re not), would it be okay to exterminate them? No, it wouldn’t be. Every person has the right to live. And this has occurred during the military rule and the NLD government. The NLD has stood with the military on this occasion. Again, on the end note, the people represent democracy, not Suu Kyi, the NLD, or the military. Many other people are worthy of being in office than Suu Kyi. People are only blinded because she’s the daughter of a national hero, Aung San, but let me tell you this Aung San will always be way more honorable and respectable than Suu Kyi. Everybody represents democracy.
@@themagicpickle3546 Same here I don't like the lady but keeping her and her party in power will make it easier to progress towards better government later down the road which include slowly stripping power from military. If military keep resetting everything then myanmar will just be discount north korea.
Great video. I do have a little issue with the explanation of the Pagan/BE wars though - you characterised them as the BE invading when really it was a combination of pitched battles between a the Pagans, Arakans and Brits - history is more complex than ‘colonists bad’!
Anyway that war was inevitable.
That's our country's destiny.
We have been blinded by pride and honor at those days.
I really appreciate how you took the time to properly research and present information on this topic. The military takeover in myanmar has been sickening and it always been.
I am from Burma and still living in Burma. This is very helpful for international people to know more about the military's action upon democracy. We're still fighting for Democracy and still can't win even though we have been fighting since 1962. This time we will not pull back and as we scream ''THE REVOLUTION MUST WIN"
Thanks alot for making this video.
I am from Myanmar and Today Millions are on the street Marching for justice and democracy. In Yangon where I live, at least 100,000 people went on the streets yst.
I hope it goes successfully 🙏, love from Bangladesh.
Thanks so much brother! I wish everything is well in your country too.
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#78×38
Myanmar hasn't had really a single piece of peace in it's history, now it's democracy is so delayed.
No peace since 88s..
@@saimyintmyat9373 since 62
The first coup
@@ABCDEFG-tq9lusince 1945
Military people just aren't the best administrators. Overwhelming force only leads to unbridled corruption and nepotism. History has shown that not even millions of dollars of foreign aid can maintain an unpopular military junta, after it becomes popular. The way I see it, time will only tell when the common people will unite against the junta.
that depends entirely on who the military people are and what they're administrating.
@The Mad Baron The Prussians were more an exception rather than the norm, and in their case they never really deposed the civilian government, rather they had good administrator leaders such as Friedrich the Great and Otto von Bismarck, as well as the educated and highly-capable Prussian aristocracy, who managed mostly civilian affairs.
What I meant above though was when military officials replace the government through coups. This kind of government almost always leads to corruption, nepotism or cronyism as the civilians have no means to fight the force possessed by the military; so the latter is free to do as it wishes to. Democracy always has a chance to lead to corruption and shadow rule by oligarchs, but the people are not left in the dark and can vote their leaders out. Admittably, it may not the best system there is, but it is the best we have for now, because the lives, freedoms and liberties of the people constitute the core of the decisions of the government unlike that of a dictatorship or military rule. Lastly, for every example similar to the Prussians, there are tens more that aren't; to wit: Pinochet of Argentina, Doe & Taylor of Liberia, Idi Amin of Uganda and Bokassa of CAR.
I hope Myanmar goes back to civilian rule.
@The Mad Baron the problem is the plebs of modern society think they're hot shit. the oligarchs know this. the oligarchs aren't retards otherwise they wouldn't be in power. honestly the military here might be too harsh on their people but democracy isn't the answer. democracy is just idiot rule or rule of the majority which tends to be rule of lazy idiots. oligarchs love that.
First of, thanks for doing this video and as a person of Burmese descent who was born there, I can say that this video is well researched and unbiased. The only thing is that I was taught Ne Win was a Socialist, not a Communist. I am hopeful for Myanmar, and people shall win!!
Just in time, well informed, brief but didn't miss important facts.
Love you from Myanmar
Hi, I’m a Burmese. I found a lot of information about junta are inaccurate. I respect that you tried to tell our country story in a short amount of time but quite a lot of inaccurate information especially from 1962 and after.
yeah. ..our country's lore is complex and full of legends and a little truth.
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Hello. Thanks for your interest and your explanations. However, I would like to add a few things that you seem to have oversimplified. For example, General Aung San joining the British back in the 1944 was mainly initiated by the japanese breaking their promises and even worse, the japanese started to oppress the people (such as rape, torture, forced labour, etc.).
Well, they were facists anyway. So, there had been a resistance group called Anti-Fascist Organization (AFO) led and organized by General Aung San. But, you are right. Aung San decided to co-operate with the Allied forces to chase the japanese out of Burma. (perhaps you simplified it since it is not the objective of your video).
Also, in 1988, there was a Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and in fact, I would like to point out that it is almost to the point of succeed. There have been some evidence about Nay Win requesting people to come back to work because many systems could collapse by that movement.
This is what people in Burma are now trying to do (or at least request to many people who are still going to the work) other than the protests on the streets. There has been ample examples from the history that direct confrontation with the military proved to be bloodshed and tragic incidents.
As a Burmese citizen, it is so disheartening to see the potential repeat of the dark history (like 1988). I really hope that there is a way out of all these excruciating situations in the end.
Thanks for your time.
Thanks man. This gave me light on history about Myanmar. Glad to be informed now. Kudos
subbed! easy to follow practical history.
Only if they tried long distance lorry driving
If only they tried democracy... Imagine the tourism potential, in a country half way between Thailand and India, on the coast with thousands of islands...
So why, exactly, did this lady get a Nobel Peace Prize? It sounds like she and her party accomplished basically nothing.
I mean Barack Obama received one... presumably for being the first Black American President. The Nobel Peace Prize doesn't really mean anything...
Being favored by the west. The military are hesitant to allow foreigners to gain influence in the country while Suu Kyi is more amenable to "friendship" with the west.
I agree. But she did bring many great changes to her country but not everyone was able to see it thanks to the military (I'm talking about the ethnic groups)
As a burmese, I think it's because she's always trying to solve the internal conflicts by using peaceful way even though almost 90% of citizens are on her side. I think you know what that means..
Don't you know that's a prerequisite to getting the Nobel prize?
thank u for this video, right now our country is in serious danger.plz spread the message .love y'all
For the Republic!
Thank you for talking about this for our country, It means a lot to us that the world is knowing what the military coup has done to us.
The fact that the military general had to launch a coup for some one stupid reason which is a law in myanmar where you get to retire at 65 as military general is so amazing.
It makes me sad to see such a promising democracy fall..
We will rise again
@ゴロゴロ yes. China don't want to develop our country.
the longer myanmar is under international sanctions and cut-off from outside world, the more china will profit from both upper-table and under-table deals with junta, which tends to be mostly in favor of china of course
Beautiful People its so sad it can be so much better if there was peace and democracy and development have hope people there
1:21 *Pagan Kingdom*
Portuguese missionaries: _Visible anger_
Poruguese,italians,french were all used as soldiers in kingdoms of burma since the 15th century and when the second empire or taungoo empire emerged,used as canon Soldiers in royal burmese army.Over 500 desendants living in myanmar.Alot of them dies in the first anglo burmese war which the ignorant burmese king didnt let british trade ports open and inavded the regions behind assam rebellion.
Thanks for doing this video, I’d always known that Ne Win ran one of the very few Socialist military dictatorships (the only others I can think of are Poland from 1981 to 83 and Portugal from 1975 to 76, both of which were much more brief). The army’s roots as Communist rebels in WWII makes it all come together much clearer now.
It seems the army, despite turning classicalist since 1988, still leans in favor of Communist China, despite the fact that all the original Burmese Communist rebels are now dead, and the fact that China supports the two breakaway republics on Myanmar’s claimed territory (Wa and Kachin) which are Chinese Communist puppet states. Myanmar really has one of the most unique militaries in the world in terms of politics, and this creates a unique power dynamic where pro-American conservative democrats struggle for any scrap of power against the now nominally classicalist, but still pro-CCP, military.
Knowing the backstory of what happened that lead to the current situation is always useful.
Thank you for this video. So much I did not know.
Thanks for bringing us up to speed!
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I mean... With a name like "State Law and Order Restoration Council", it's inevitable that they'd go overboard. So many unnecessary deaths. Wishing Myanmar good luck ✊🏾
I wanna say i am burmese and there is military rules we cant leave 8PM to 5 AM if we leave we get shot and other thing is they block our wifi and fb and i. Using mobile network this is very bad here we need help there is also china and russia in burma idk what they doing we need help
Have you tried Reddit? Post your stories & pics all up on there! The world supports the people of Burma!
@@tristanbackup2536 where i gonna share? !? !
@@tristanbackup2536bad thing that they will shot when they know i doing this they try to cut connect with ouside world and killing the people they dont like
@@kaito1213
Info dump here if all else fails. I will screenshot it all & put it up on Reddit & other forums to get your story out.
@@tristanbackup2536 i gonna say **Bruh**
Thank you. This is pretty much what happened and what is happening at this moment.
Maak vaker Video's over nieuws thema's !!!
Heb echt genoten van de history over dit conflict.
Thanks Hillbert, this video was exactly what I was looking for on the subject
I had the privilege of living in Myanmar and learning there language this past year and I just want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing Myanmar history, though complex, and it's diverse culture. International Community: Myanmar wants/needs your help. Read more, talk more, and write to your representatives that your country support The People of Myanmar. Not the rich, selfish, and deadly leaders that now, officially said f*** democracy (in which they puppeteered). Please support the NLD, even if you do not support Aung Sung Su Kyi. THANK YOU. All on behalf of close friends in Mawlamyine, Myanmar (:
My great grandfather was in the same room when Aung San was assassinated. He survived because he managed to escape by jumping out of a window next to him.
Is this serious or sarcasm
@@brobroman425 hes serious
@@brobroman425 Its possible. My grandfather was a karen rebel fighting the myanmar military in karen state. He retired after getting grenade shrapnel lodged into his spine. Sneaked into yangon to raise a family.
@@brobroman425 He is serious.There were like 12 or 13 people.9 died.
Nowhere near an expert, but I feel that the installation of Aung Sun Suu Kyi's as "State Counsellor" was a huge part of the problem. There is (for valid reasons) a cult of personality around her but that is a dangerous precedent and direction for a developing country. I feel they should have just left her as a party member and mouth-piece and been more patient for change.
That's pretty close to the mark. ASSK always swore she had no intention to become president, but as soon as the opportunity presented itself she grabbed as much power as she could. Initially she had 3 different portfolios (cabinet level positions) but had to finally settle for one. She made a good resistance leader but a poor political leader as defacto head of government. The army has never liked her but has to defer to her father's position as an important national symbol. And her father was himself a controversial figure who made a lot of enemies in his short life.
@@ronagoodwell2709 you cant exactly say she grabbed power when there is hardly anything to grab, with the military having total control and secrecy over key ministries like defense. She took the place of State Counselor because if she took the place of president, the military will use the law where a politician cannot be married to foreigners to oust her since she has a British husband. She cannot be just a party member, because she is the face of the party that acts as the insurance to the different ethnic groups and forty different ethnic armed forces in myanmar. The military would find fault with the president if she was not there to act as the other leader. She had 3 portfolios initially but even then, she only took the salary of less than one because of how understaffed it was and also as a placeholder so that the military wont get any funny ideas about taking them and when she had people, she let them take over, no fuss. You wont know her plans till the very end tbh because only under her rule, did all 15 permanent and non permanent members of UN agree unanimously on condemning the coup. Even stubborn veto powers like China and Russia.
She cannot speak out against the military because she had no power in the first place. Not only that, all key ministries like defense were under the military so it has been an absolute nightmare trying to open an investigation against the military. What would ended up happening if she spoke out too soon is the military will take over the NLD, assassinate or execute the democratic government over defamation charges. And if that happens, good luck getting anything done against the military because they aint giving no shits just like they giving no shits when the Karen genocide was happening till now ( I doubt u even know about the Karen genocide huh} . Speaking whatever u want is the luxury of the outside world with a constitution that protects your free speech. You do not have to bear the repercussions and consequences of falling into the traps made by the military. Even now, all 15 of UN key members condemn the military and wants the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the other leaders!
this coup was the military's attempt at trying to repeat 1988 crackdown. But it hasnt been working. dog Min Aung Hlaing is scared because he is the one masterminding the Rohingya genocide and one of the government objective was to follow the direction of the ICJ to investigate and charge those responsible for the genocide. knowing that he must retire by 65, he is well aware that the investigations will fall on him once he is disconnected from his military rank and position.
@@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600 yet for as little as she can get Kyi still manage to run the civilian portion of the government like she’s a dictator. She filled all cabinet members with only loyalist without consideration of personal qualifications. I mean two cabinet minister in Kyi administration have fake college degree. Kyi effectively control executive branch of the government with her cult of personality which also extend its influence to the legislative branch. Any legislator that vote against the party line will be quickly dismissed and thus no real check and balance exist in Kyi’s civillian administration.
Not to mention that Kyi benefits greatly from the military era censorship law in suppressing opposition even tho this kind of law is what she promised to get rid off. And let’s not forget her denial of Rohingya genocide
@@oakoakoak2219
Every Burmese knows that NLD isnt perfect. We only look out for DASSK. There is no other party that is able to go against the military and without the face of DASSK, there would be no unified support in the ethnic groups. furthermore, most of the other parties are military owned. the civilian portion of government is NOT enough to overturn the rigged constitution . So imagine if she introduce members with unverified loyalties. There would be no agreeing on anything. Think about why thai military also hard to kick out. If the King can give order to crackdown with les majeste laws, what makes you think the military is not trying to trap Aung San Suu Kyi with defamation charges? Until the constitution is changed, no real democracy is guaranteed
Great historical summary. Thank you.
Top quality Videos Hilbert keep them up really enjoying these videos👍🏼👍🏼