Military coup in Myanmar removed the "star" of the West
In Myanmar (Burma), the military seized power and declared a state of emergency after the arrest of President Vin Myin, the leader of the ruling party Aung San Suu Kyi, other officials and MPs.
The Internet, television and radio broadcasting were turned off, banks were closed, a news anchor announced on a TV channel owned by the military that the power had been transferred to the commander-in-chief of the army, Min Aung Hlaing.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won the November parliamentary elections in a landslide victory having gained 83 percent of the vote, as well as an opportunity to lead the government for another five years. The military-backed "Party of Solidarity and Development of the Union" won only 33 of 476 seats. The military assumed they had lost due to "fraud."