19-08-2024, 10:08 AM
As The Failures of Myanmar’s Dictator Pile up, His Supporters Are Lashing Out. Junta boss Min Aung Hlaing is under fire again after the military he commands, known as the Tadmadaw in Myanmar, suffered yet another unprecedented, humiliating and historic string of defeats to ragtag armies.
Military supporters and ultra-nationalists are grumbling, some obliquely and others directly, about his failed leadership.
Criticism escalated after ethnic Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army captured Tatmadaw’s Northeastern Command, which had decades-long reputation for vast combat experience victories, including repelling invasions. The ethnic army seized command’s HQ in northern Shan State’s Lashio cty on August 4 after a-month battle. i
This is 2nd time Min Aung Hlaing’s has been questioned after another string of humiliating defeats in northern Shan State, some of his staunchest supporters called for his resignation.
Former Lieutenant-Colonel Hla Swe, chair of the military’s proxy Union Solidarity Development Party in Naypyitaw since 2021 coup, has joined chorus indirect attack on Min Aung Hlaing is a column he penned in August 15 issue of military-backed Bullet News Journal, which he runs
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/as-...g-out.html
Military supporters and ultra-nationalists are grumbling, some obliquely and others directly, about his failed leadership.
Criticism escalated after ethnic Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army captured Tatmadaw’s Northeastern Command, which had decades-long reputation for vast combat experience victories, including repelling invasions. The ethnic army seized command’s HQ in northern Shan State’s Lashio cty on August 4 after a-month battle. i
This is 2nd time Min Aung Hlaing’s has been questioned after another string of humiliating defeats in northern Shan State, some of his staunchest supporters called for his resignation.
Former Lieutenant-Colonel Hla Swe, chair of the military’s proxy Union Solidarity Development Party in Naypyitaw since 2021 coup, has joined chorus indirect attack on Min Aung Hlaing is a column he penned in August 15 issue of military-backed Bullet News Journal, which he runs
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/as-...g-out.html