Myanmar's fragile democracy

The military rolls back a popular mandate

The military coup in Myanmar a little over two months after national elections handed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), a landslide victory remains a cautionary tale of the importance of building robust institutional safeguards for democracy to endure. The military has reasserted its power just six years after the country transitioned to democracy and held elections in 2015, which handed power to a civilian government led by Ms Suu Kyi and the NLD. The military led by commander in chief Min Aung Hlaing, who has assumed control of