Resistance to Burma’s military usurpers taking the wrong road

Only six months following the military coup, some of the Burmese democrats are already turning to violence. This is a strategic error that will cost them and Burma very dearly.

The best way to resist Burma’s military rule, led by General Min Aung Hlaing, is through non-violent protest as violent attempted revolutions fail twice as often as non-violent ones,writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Vadim Savitsky

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 21, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Burma (Myanmar) is a land of poets. Eleven published poets won seats in the 2015 election, which gave the country a limited form of democracy after decades of military rule. In the popular resistance that has spread since the soldiers seized power again ...

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