Christie on the military coup in Myanmar

Human Security and Peacebuilding professor Dr. Kenneth Christie spoke to CFAX 1070’s Adam Stirling about this week’s military coup in Myanmar.

Here is an excerpt:

“This is very disturbing because we though Myanmar was transitioning to democracy. They had an election in 2015 and the National League of Democracy won a landslide, but after five or six years it’s gone back to the military again.

“The military may be a bit scared at the moment and taking advantage of the COVID situation, and the rest of the world not taking enough attention. I think they are frightened they will lose power and democracy will truly take hold in Myanmar. They’ve overturned the election and said there’s fraud… that’s typical of what dictatorships do.”

You can listen to the entire interview on CFAX 1070.