Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military takes control of Myanmar
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Myanmar’s military declared a year-long state of emergency after it detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent coup that threatens to end a fraught 10-year journey to democracy.
The army sent soldiers into Yangon, and shut down the internet and state TV on Monday morning, hours after raids on Suu Kyi, civilian leaders and student groups. It used its own military TV network to announce the state of emergency just after 1pm AEDT and transfer power to armed forces Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.
Myanmar’s army seized power in an apparent coup during the early morning hours Monday, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with members of her party and declaring a state of emergency, which signaled an end to the Southeast Asian nation s nascent democratic experiment.
A newsreader on the military-owned Myawaddy TV confirmed the coup hours later, citing widespread voter fraud in the country s general elections this past November, which Suu Kyi’s party National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide. The newsreader said Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of
Myanmar s armed forces, would be in charge of the country while Vice President Myint Swe, a retired general and close ally of
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UPDATED at 2:50 P.M. EST on 2021-2-1
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged her country to “to protest against the coup by the military” in a message released Monday after the army arrested her and dozens of ruling party officials and declared a one-year state of emergency to deal with unproven voting fraud allegations from 2020 elections.
The note, written before the army’s coup Monday, came as denunciations poured in from the United Nations, the United States and other countries, with U.S. President Joe Biden calling for an allied effort to restore democracy in the Southeast Asian nation that emerged from military dictatorship in 2011.