Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup
Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup
In the November 2020 elections in Myanmar, the NLD, the party Aung San Suu Kyi belongs to, won 396 out of 476 seats in parliament. After the elections huge mass protests broke out. Millions of people took to the streets contesting the election results. The government tried to quell the protests, but was unable. After some time the military staged a coup and took control of the government. After that the only change was that the repression of the protests became a lot more violent.
Here is how Wikipedia rewrites that history.
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No memory of your own? Already reprogrammed?
The protest were widely reported back then.
"Use your memory" doesn't make for a great reference in trying to dispute a statement made in a well-referenced encyclopedia article.
The article itself has an abundant number of reliable references. Reviewing details throughout the article such as the Junta taking an anti-Ukraine stance merely to stay on Putin's good side in terms of weapon shipments, selling out to China as yet another source of weapons, India engaging in the same sort of war profiteering that they've done with Russian oil by providing them with yet more weapons, and the Junta proceeding to use all of those weapons on its own people, at times intentionally targeting civilians, any sympathy towards the Junta seems difficult to comprehend.
As an analogy, many far-right extremists have framed the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol Building as a valid protest of a "rigged" election, but their unsubstantiated claims neither change the fact that the 2020 US presidential election hadn't been rigged, nor that the violent MAGA protestors deserved the prison time that they were subsequently sentenced to.
In a political landscape as heated as Myanmar, there were bound to be protests regardless of who won the election, but protests alone don't invalidate election results. So, unless you have reliable sources to base your claims off of, "memory" isn't a valid reference on Wikipedia.
It's Wikipedia. Get some sources and start editing then.