2 years after coup, Myanmar's mess – and India's headache

It is two years since the Myanmar army seized power in the pre-dawn hours of February 1, 2021, the day new Members of Parliament were scheduled to meet in an inaugural session. The National League for Democracy (NLD) had won a landslide victory, and to justify the coup, the generals alleged rigging by Aung San Suu Kyi's party. In fact, the coup appears to have been driven by the generals' fear that Suu Kyi, backed by democratic parties in Parliament, would rewrite the 2008 Constitution, and write the military out of it. Plan that didn't work out However, the present…