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This combination of pictures created on February 1, 2021 shows (top L) Myanmar’s President Win Myint during a visit to New Delhi on February 27, 2020, (top R) Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Bangkok on November 4, 2019, (bottom L) Myint Swe, then the Yangon division chief minister, delivering a speech in Yangon on February 12, 2013, and (bottom R) Myanmar’s Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar armed forces, saluting during a ceremony to mark the 71th anniversary of Martyrs’ Day in Yangon on July 19, 2018. Soe Than WIN, Prakash SINGH, Lillian SUWANRUMPHA, Ye Aung THU / AFP
Coup was inevitable : Myanmar army chief s first public comment on putsch Updated Feb 03, 2021 | 13:18 IST
General Min Aung Hlaing was given legislative, judicial and executive powers , effectively returning Myanmar to military rule after a 10-year experiment with democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi | Photo Credit: AP
The military ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi s government in Myanmar was inevitable , army chief General Min Aung Hlaing said Tuesday, as Washington formally designated the takeover as a coup.
Myanmar s powerful military stunned the nation Monday when it detained Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy (NLD) party leaders in pre-dawn raids ahead of a scheduled resumption of parliament.
Myanmar military should end violence, respect democracy: FORUM-ASIA
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional network of 81 member organisations across 21 Asian countries, with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and consultative relationship with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights. Founded in 1991, a FORUM-ASIA statement, endorsed by 122 organisations and
several individuals, has demanded that Myanmar military should end its use of violence and respect democracy, stating, they “denounce an apparent coup in Myanmar, and associated violence, which has suspended civilian government and effectively returned full power to the military”:
On 1 February, the military arbitrarily detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the National League for Democracy. A year-long state of emergency was declared, installing Vice-President and former lieutenant-general M
Is it Business-as-usual? Myanmar Military Hold First Cabinet Meeting After Coup Published February 3rd, 2021 - 08:54 GMT
A car leaves the residence of Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon 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. STR / AFP
Highlights
Myanmar held the first meeting of its new Cabinet Wednesday after the military seized power.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers was held at the presidential palace with the participation of the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and President Min Aung Hlaing, Deputy Vice President Myint Swe, and nine Cabinet members appointed to replace ministers who were dismissed on Tuesday, according to a statement by the information unit of the Myanmar army.
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