Myanmar: Exploiting lessons learnt in the Middle East

James M. Dorsey
Feb 24 · 7 min read

By James M. Dorsey

Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning lessons from a decade of protest in the Middle East and North Africa.

By the same token, Myanmar’s protesters, in stark contrast to public silence about the military’s brutal…

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