This Sunday will mark five years since the military retook control of Myanmar in a coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The military celebrated the anniversary by declaring a landslide victory for its political party in a general election widely condemned as fraudulent. But according to Mark Farmaner, director of the non-governmental organization Burma Campaign UK, the five years since the coup have been “horribly bad” for the military junta, which has lost control of huge swathes of the country to armed rebel groups.



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