Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected officials in Myanmar s National League for Democracy party were detained under house arrest, and communications were cut to the capital.
The Myanmar military has reportedly detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her ruling National League for Democracy party in a coup attempt that climaxes rising tension between the military and the civilian government of the former Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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NAYPYITAW, Myanmar: Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule.