The military junta has shown it is not interested in transition, only in annihilation, writes Christopher Gunness B urma, or Myanmar as the dictatorship prefers to call it, has passed a grim milestone: the fifth anniversary of the coup in which Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing seized power, triggering the most deadly and widespread violence the country has seen since the 1988 democracy uprising against military rule. Junta attacks on civilians have reached unprecedented levels. According to the