Commentary The coup d’état in Burma (also known as Myanmar), earlier this year, may have dismantled the fragile foundations of the country’s democratic government, but the ensuing rise of a fervent pro-democracy civilian movement could be a turning point for the Rohingya population. Burma was thrown into disarray on Feb. 1, when the Tatmadaw, Burma’s military junta, ousted the democratically elected President Aung San Suu Kyi and her government, the National League for Democracy (NLD). They claimed that the party’s landslide electoral victory months earlier had been marred by widespread voter fraud. The junta used the claims to take back control and plunge the country once again under military rule. Their leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has since Aug. 1, declared himself Prime Minister of a newly formed caretaker government in an attempt to legitimise the military’s administration. His declaration of multi-party general elections in 2023 forces Burma to undergo two and a half …