Myanmar marks bitter 5-year anniversary of 2021 coup

Only two years ago, reports about Myanmar were rife with speculation that the Tatmadaw, the Burmese term for the military, might be on its last legs. Now, five years since the junta toppled a democratically elected government on February 1, 2021 and set off a bloody civil war, that talk is all but over. “The early-2024 speculation about