Opinion: How Myanmar s opening to democracy got crushed CNN 2/2/2021 Opinion by Jared Genser © Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Military vehicles are seen along a street in Mandalay on February 2, 2021, as Myanmar s generals appeared in firm control a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Suu Kyi detained. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
In a precision operation early Monday, Myanmar s armed forces chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing summarily deposed the country s government, arresting state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and dozens of other key officials. The military blocked roads in the capital Naypyidaw and Rangoon, disrupted television, telephone and internet service and imposed a curfew.
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