Thousands of Myanmar military personnel have held their annual parade of strength even after a recent series of unprecedented battlefield defeats. The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council alleged in a speech that the nation’s youth are being tricked by propaganda into supporting the resistance against army rule.
Thousands of Myanmar military personnel held their annual parade in the capital Naypyitaw on Wednesday, Mar. 27 against a background of unprecedented battlefield defeats that have heavily tarnished their once invincible reputation. The military seized power in Myanmar in February 2021, overthrowing the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, whom it accused, without providing evidence, of winning the 2020 election through massive voter fraud.
Many Western nations have applied sanctions against Myanmar’s ruling generals because of their 2021 seizure of power and brutal suppression of opposition. Military offensives since then have displaced more than 2 million people, according to the United Nations.
The military’s suppression of protests against its takeover triggered nationwide armed resistance. Thousands of young people fled to jungles and mountains in remote border areas and made common cause with ethnic guerrilla forces battle-hardened by decades of combat with the army in pursuit of autonomy.
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