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Rule35 on March 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station...

So it was a legal coup? What gives one side legitimacy?

prashantsengar on March 13, 2021 [–]

The Government that was thrown was elected by the people. This gives them legitimacy.

Rule35 on March 14, 2021 | [–]

But the election was governed by the same constitution that apparently gives the military these powers...

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