How the junta and dictator Min Aung Hlaing are leveraging the earthquake recovery period to legitimize brutal military rule.

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,650 people in Myanmar and Thailand, leaving the region reeling as rescuers pick through vast piles of rubble to find missing people.

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