By Roland Watson
August 3, 2013

The failure of the pro-democracy movement

I’ll begin with an obituary. The Burma pro-democracy movement is dead.

Of course, some people might disagree. Instead, they might say that it is “over.” The Burma democracy movement isn’t dead, it’s just over, because it succeeded. Burma is now free and democratic.

I know how ridiculous this sounds, but many people actually do hold this view. The SPDC and Than Shwe are GONE, and the “progress” in the country is irreversible. The “reform” will take some years to complete, of course, but democracy is now established, there is a President and a Parliament, and things will only get better.

Read More: A NEW BURMA DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT (PDF file)