No Letup in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War

No Letup in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War

By: David Scott MathiesonPhoto from Deutsche WelleAs Myanmar marks five years since the February 2021 coup d’etat that ended representative democracy, the country’s civil war shows little sign of de-escalating. The three-stage election cycle has concluded, and any retrospective must conclude that fighting during that month was less about “election-related violence” by all sides, and more followed the logic of pre-existing combat dynamics that ha…