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About April 2013 the rebels did have a chance, but they lost it when they were 'attacked' by ISIS. Many rebel groups simply switched sides and by August the entire eastern front had either joined or been defeated by ISIS.

Anyway the whole purpose for the civil war is so that the Sauds could set up a puppet regime so they could build an oil pipeline thorugh the country and into Turkey. However they underestimated how popular Assad was, so the initial uprising failed, and it ended up escalated into a brutal civil war. Not wanting to admit defeat the Sauds continued throwing money at the problem.

Also the military government is not some mass genociding neo-nazi regime. Their only purpose is to reastablish order in a country that is in chaos so as such are unlikely to slaughter civilians who oppose them as that is completely counterproductive.

Also based off surveys by the IRI and other organisations found that only 35% of people in Myanmar actualy care about democracy and 60% are likely to back whatever is best for prosperity. This lines up pretty consistantly with 'recent' opinion polls which shows the NLD and NDF (the democratic parties) recieving only around 35.3% of popular support while 58.4% said they wouldn't vote and the remainder voting for anti-democratic parties. This is pretty tragic for a supposed 'democracy'.