Military Dictatorship

Fascism as a Way to Acquire Power in Myanmar and the Philippines

This paper is an attempt to analyze the military dictatorship in Myanmar and the Philippines
I. State violence
A state is the organization which has the monopoly of the use of violence. There are two major forms of this; one is against other states, which we call war. Second, is the organized violence against its citizens practiced by almost all states. According to Alan Macfarlane that it has a significant meaning, fascist architecture, control over propaganda, giant motorcade and nationalist music. There is also the development of penal and legal institutions which often divides up the population into the free and the imprisoned. Most of the state violence is used force to

And it is different from democracies and other authoritarian rule. According to Konsam Shakila Devi, democracy is composed of four key good qualities; free and equal election, universal adult vote, protection of civil alternatives, freedom of speech and press and association and the absence of non- elected guardian authority (48).
Previously known as Burma, Myanmar has the world’s longest surviving military dictatorship. Myanmar’s 135 recognised ethnic minority groups continue to be marginalised and armed conflict persists. What are the factors responsible for this – and what are the origins of the internal political conflict that has plagued the country for so long? The Military Dictatorship to Burma is far from the four historical facts- a high military belief, a relatively frail public people and established of national disintegration and equally long- lasting frighten of foreign

Modern Brma was born partially out of an Alliance Military battle against the Japanese occupation- a fight by year 1945, also involved Burmese forces led by the leaders of what became the country’s post-independence army (Attar 1). Burma the undeveloped military, known as the Brman Independence Army was first develop during the Second World War by Anti- Colonial Burmese partisan in collaboration with the Japanese. Under the Japanese Occupation it became the Burman Defense Army in 1942 and the Burmese National Army in 1943. As the war started to twist against the Japanese, the BNA coverted direction and support the Allies which became Patriotic Burmese Force. However, from all of these politically induced transition in classification, the developing Burmese military was led by the Modern Burma’s, the greatest national hero- Aung San. In fact it is his exemplary status that assists not only Burma’s military tradition but also the capacity of Burma’s main opposition head, his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi (Devi