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Four years ago, the former British colony wedged between India and China promised so much.

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A half-century of military rule had given way to a government with a popular leader elected cleanly, with a mandate to transform South-East Asia’s most impoverished country into a model of what democracy can achieve, even in countries with shallow democratic roots.

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year, is locked in a jungle jail with no prospect of release, while the army with whom she had shared power since 2016 fights a brutal civil war on multiple fronts that has claimed thousands of lives.

The country’s ten-year democratic experiment has been shot down in flames.

The immediate culprit is obvious: the Burmese military has reverted to brutal type. It is again doing what it has done for most of Myanmar’s independent history – getting rich, while keeping its people poor.

But in this Independent TV documentary, former ambassador Sir John Jenkins argues that we in the West are to blame, too.

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