Politics
Military Coups Can Halt Democracies. However, It Is Not the End of Their Democratic Dream.
What happens to a frail democracy when it is decoupled from morals and coupled with a coup — the story of Myanmar.
Military Coups are based on inferior perceptions about people’s ability to decide for themselves and their incompetency to take on political responsibility. They undermine the potential of a society to run its politics democratically. It is an attempt not to allow people to exercise their most basic rights. Different military regimes worldwide try out distinct and seemingly persuasive rationales/propaganda to sway people onto their side. Some sell the notion that democracy is ill-suited to their culture and norms; others say the military is required to maintain unity amongst the heterogeneous population. We need to understand that any set of ideas, when taken to extremity, would start to sound fair and just if one is not comprehensively aware of what they are dealing with. In situations like one in Myanmar, fear and insecurity are created particularly to justify acts of the military and, therefore, their value and necessity.
Myanmar has a long past with the military. In 1962, the democratic government was unseated by the then army chief, Ne…
