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Myanmar is a bit different. It was under constant control of the military and families connect to it (which also got extremely rich through corruption).
They switched to "democracy" to get sanctions lifted, but they still controlled what government did. Once people voted on a bill that would remove their power and turn Myanmar to true democracy, that's when they stepped in and took control back to prevent it.
Well that's sort of my point. Once you go down the military coup path it's hard to get out.
and they used aung sun suu kyi as a lightning rod, eventhough she had no power in the government.