Now is the time to help Myanmar win its battle for democracy

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Three years ago, the Myanmar military staged a coup that ended a decade-long experiment with limited democracy and civilian government, reimposing a brutal and repressive regime. The coup provoked an unprecedented resistance movement, finally bringing the country’s dominant Bamar majority into a struggle that ethnic minority groups have waged for many decades. Before 2010, the military’s grip on the country was unshakeable and its economic mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that Myanmar (also known as Burma) went from being one of richest countries in Asia at its independence in 1947 to one of the poorest and most isolated. During its...