‘Not guilty of anything’: the Australian adviser detained in Myanmar
Prof Sean Turnell is close to ousted democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and was taken by military in the days after the coup
“Nostalgia sure ain’t what it used to be,” Prof Sean Turnell posted wryly on Twitter, the morning after a coup plunged Myanmar back into military dictatorship, the dark state of affairs it has known for most of the last half-century.
Turnell, the director of the Myanmar Development Institute, and a key economic adviser to the democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi had lived in the capital Naypyidaw since 2017, and understood well the outsized influence of the military on political affairs, and its capacity for capriciousness.
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