Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video(timesnownews.com) |
Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video(timesnownews.com) |
You can see the shadow on the bag on the right side in the beginning.
here is a opposite view, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtNsnSxVEAE6hJo?format=jpg&name=...
coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright
If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.
This stated communication blackouts lasted from 3 to 1115 am, with one journalist reporting a loss of service at 4am: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55893736.
The coup didn't happen instantaneously at a given time, so it seems reasonable to say the video was recorded during the coup. At the same time, it's not really clear what specific activities the vehicles were on route to.
Can someone from that country or who knows what's going on give some insight?
On the face of it, seems like military leaders who don't want to give up control. Is it more complicated than that? Do they actually believe there will be some kind of revolt by one faction if she stays in power (or at least some excuse like that)? The article I saw was not very insightful.
Plan A failed so this is B.
Their pretense is the "election was fraud"
It looks like some military vehicles politely entering a government complex at a rather brisk pace. Maybe an official wanted a joyride in the latest troop carrier thingy?
It's not ignorance if there's no way you can tell something is up !
Certainly Jan 6th mayhem at the US capitol looked more like "a coup", and the rioters involved probably thought it was going their way for a couple of hours, yet in the end it was nothing but a humiliation for a bunch of angry hillbillies and conspiracy theorists. The military in Myanmar certainly knew where to go and what to do.
Perhaps the aerobics video is more like a picture of competence in staging a successful coup? :-)
I know nothing about Myanman politics so I won't wax poetic about anything
I've been there. It is awesome. Myanmar, I mean.
Amazing place, amazing people (when you get to find them) and amazing food.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/19%C2%B046'33.0%22N+96%C2%...
After the vehicles pass through the roadblock, they can be seen to turn left, heading towards the Presidential Palace.
The city itself is pretty sparse.
Here is the original in a tweet: https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382
But as someone else pointed out, the coup may have happened in the middle of the night at ~4am or so. Is this really showing the actual coup, or just the aftermath?
It’s also funny to see skeptics who think they cleverly avoid being manipulated when they see a cut off shadow fall into that trap because they are not skeptical enough of their own hypotheses.
Is there an adjectival form of Myanmar? I've been assuming we were stuck with "Burmese" regardless of whether we called it "Burma".
Burmese is tonal, and has both the noun "Myanma" and the related but not identical adjective "Myanma". The noun has a low tone and a long "a", which reflecting British pronunciation was spelled "Myanmar". The adjectival form uses the creaky tone with a short "a", hence it's supposed to be spelled "Myanma" without the r.
In practice, though, nobody cares and everybody says "Myanmar" for both, even the official English translation of the constitution, which says "Myanmar language".
"Myanman" or "Myanmarese" are both wrong though.
The building in the background of the video appears to be a shrine located just past the road leading to the Presidential Palace. You can see the vehicles turn left just before the shrine, so they were probably up to no good...
The sun shines from the back towards the right so is more in the east. I'd put it somewhere around 10 to 12 AM local time (UTC+6.5).
https://www.suncalc.org/#/19.7758,96.1326,15/2021.01.31/11:4...