Min Zin, a student activist in Burma’s 1988 democracy movement, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Burma country analyst for Freedom House. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
Even though Burma’s military seems to have accepted the NLD’s stunning election victory, it can still use an array of constitutional provisions to hamstring the incoming NLD government.
The Burmese transition that began in 2011 will be a protracted process. The main challenge now is to build a state in which democracy can take root and grow.
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