Yes, of course it matters. There are much closer examples temporally, politically, and physically that Myanmar would have actually learned from (e.g., India's Modi shutting down Kashmir's internet beginning in 2019). Trying to associate the actions of Myanmar's military junta with a movement a century past and on the opposite political spectrum is an obvious and tortured stretch by the GP and its upvoters to indirectly attack their current political enemies.
This is a good illustration of why a general strike would be the most impactful form of protest. The government relies on the work of these citizens every single day to maintain power.
I would guess that you never weaken the core opposition, but sympathetic other folks working in the day... you might limit their exposure to the core folks.
The Burmese people kept quiet, and possibly supported the genocide of rohingyas. Now the chicken has come home to roost. Their neighbours, us Indians, made similar mistake with Kashmiris, and now we are paying the price for it as the whole country has become authoritarian.[1] Classic examples of Martin Niemöller's poem.
More or less what Myanmar so called democratic government was doing to its Muslim Rohingya population was forgotten as the government was democratic. India had cut of internet for months in Kashmir but little news in the western media. Even today Chinese atrocities against Uighur minorities are talked about every week but no one talks about Kashmir or the other minorities in India being marginalized by the current Modi government. With the internet and all the news sources available you realize all the good evil, black and white paraded about in the media or global organizations has little to do with actuall ground realities but mostly propagandas of different countries and interests.
Chinese “atrocities” against Uighurs are talked about every week because it’s a story invented and pushed by the US state department. It’s the WMDs in Iraq of this decade.
My understanding is that the Rohingyan genocide in Myanmar is legitimate, but I’m curious why Myanmar is receiving so much attention at this point.
