Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar have been supported in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings.
The Jakarta Method strikes once again.
How is this the Jakarta Method? The Junta is not backed by the US.
The US opposes the current coup government, but I don’t think they opposed the collapse of the democratic government. They’re just unhappy with the current coup regime and want a different one. But, you’re right, it’s not exactly Jakarta. There are still similarities. They’re providing hundreds of millions of dollars of support to groups fighting the civil war, passed a bill in 2022 that allows the President discretion to provide said aid, and the American foreign policy director Derek Chollet met with the National Unified Government’s Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung and several armed group leaders, including representatives from the Kachin Independence Army.
The US’s tentacles are all over this.