Myanmar Case Study Reflection

After watching the four videos about Myanmar, I found that this country is still developing and recovering in many ways from its former military rule. Formerly, the country was called Burma, and had a strict military government that kept any form of protest to a minimum with violence, as seen in the "Crackdown" video. The current leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was locked up for almost twenty years because she was an activist for democracy and advocated for the removal of the military rule. She was elected in the first democratic election in Myanmar since the beginning of the military rule, and hopes to help the country recover from its devastating past.