BREAKING: MILITARY COUP IN MYANMAR - AUNG SAN SUU KYI DETAINED - MILITARY DECLARES 1 YEAR CONTROL

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained, ruling party spokesman says

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained, ruling party spokesman says


Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi leaves after paying her respects to her late father during a ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon on July 19, 2020. Ye Aung Thu/Pool via REUTERS


(Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday.

The move comes after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military that stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent.

Spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters by phone that Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders had been “taken” in the early hours of the morning.

“I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law,” he said, adding he also expected to be detained.

Reporting by Poppy McPherson in London; Editing by Peter c00ney




Aung San Suu Kyi and other Myanmar figures detained in military raids, says ruling party


Aung San Suu Kyi and other Myanmar figures detained in military raids, says ruling party
Country’s powerful military have previously threatened to ‘take action’ over alleged fraud in a November election

Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained along with other ruling party figures. Photograph: Myanmar State Counselor Office/EPA
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s president and other senior ruling party figures have been detained by the military in an early morning raid, a party spokesman said on Monday.

Spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters that Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders had been “taken” early in the morning. “I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law,” he said, adding he also expected to be detained.

The move comes after the country’s powerful military raised the spectre of staging a coup as it ramped up demands for an investigation into alleged voter fraud during last year’s election, which was swept by Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) won November’s poll in a landslide, but has been much criticised by rights groups for its disenfranchisement of voters in conflict-wracked regions.

The military-aligned opposition disputed the results, while the army has for weeks alleged widespread voter irregularities, claiming to have found 8.6m cases of fraud.

Last week military spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun said that military chief Min Aung Hlaing – arguably Myanmar’s most powerful individual – had already pointed out “dishonesty and unfairness” during the election.

When pressed on the possibility of a coup, the spokesman refused to be drawn, but did not rule it out.

“We do not say the Tatmadaw will take power. We do not say it will not as well,” said the spokesman, using the Burmese name for the military.

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2021

 

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This is PRECISELY why what Trump did was so goddamn dangerous

 

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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained by military'

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained by military'
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Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's governing National League for Democracy (NLD) party, has been arrested, the spokesman for the party said.

It comes amid tensions between the civilian government and the military, stoking fears of a coup.

The NLD won enough seats in parliament to form a government in November, but the army says the vote was fraudulent.

The army has called on the government to postpone convening of parliament, due to take place on Monday.

Spokesman Myo Nyunt told the Reuters news agency by phone that Ms Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders had been "taken" in the early hours of the morning.

"I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law," he said, adding he also expected to be detained.

• Aung San Suu Kyi: Democracy icon who fell from grace

The BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, says there are soldiers on the streets of the capital, Naypyitaw, and the main city, Yangon.

Telephone and internet lines in Naypyitaw have been cut, the BBC's Burmese Service reports.

Soldiers also visited the homes of chief ministers in several regions and took them away, family members said.

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Myanmar Leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Is Detained Amid Coup Fears
The action came after mounting indications of an impending coup in the Southeast Asian nation.
Jan. 31, 2021, 6:23 p.m. ET

Myanmar’s Leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in Naypyidaw last week.Thet Aung/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and other government leaders were detained in early morning raids Monday, the country’s government said as the country ran rife with rumors of an impending coup.

The Reuters news agency quoted Myo Nyunt, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy, as confirming the detentions on Monday. The internet appeared to be down in two major cities in Myanmar.

Myanmar had been celebrated as a rare case in which generals willingly handed over some power to civilians, honoring election results in 2015 that ushered into office the National League for Democracy, whose stalwarts had spent years in jail for their political opposition to the military.

But the army, led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has maintained important levers of power in the country, and the detention of top government leaders appeared to prove the lie in its commitment to democracy.

The turmoil now was ostensibly provoked by concerns about fraud in the November elections that delivered an even bigger landslide to the National League for Democracy than it enjoyed five years earlier. The governing party secured 396 out of 476 seats in Parliament, while the military’s proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, managed just 33.

The Union Solidarity and Development Party cried foul, as did political parties representing hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities who had been disenfranchised shortly before the vote because the areas where they lived were supposedly too gripped by strife for elections to take place. Members of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, who have been victims of what international prosecutors call a genocidal campaign by the military, were also unable to cast their ballots.

Supporters of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrating the electoral victory in November.Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“They should have resolved it from the beginning,” said U Sai Nyunt Lwin, the vice president of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, which represents the Shan ethnic group, referring to the bickering between Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s forces and the military, which grew after the November election. “But it did not succeed with negotiations, and it reached the stage of a coup.”

In recent years, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, once celebrated as an international champion of human rights for her campaign of conscience against the junta while under 15 years of house arrest, emerged as one of the military’s biggest public defenders. Despite a mountain of evidence against the military, she has publicly rejected accusations that the security forces waged a genocidal campaignagainst the Rohingya.

But with her national popularity enduring, and her party receiving another electoral mandate, the generals began visibly losing patience with the facade of civilian rule that they had designed.

The detention of senior civilian leaders of the government in a pre-dawn raid occurred just hours before Parliament was supposed to begin its opening session after the November election.

The country had buzzed with coup rumors for days, prompting a number of diplomatic missions, including that of the United States, on Friday, to “urge the military and all other parties in the country to adhere to democratic norms.”

“We oppose any attempt to alter the outcome of the elections or impede Myanmar’s democratic transition,” the diplomatic statement said.

Hannah Beech has been the Southeast Asia bureau chief since 2017, based in Bangkok. Before joining The Times, she reported for Time magazine for 20 years from bases in Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok and Hong Kong. @hkbeech

 

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Kinda indifferent

 

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Kinda indifferent

 

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Didnt she oversee the military oppression of the minority group there?

 

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Didnt she oversee the military oppression of the minority group there?

Yeah, Brother.

 

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Yeah, Brother.

Arc of justice has a looooong curve, but it will get there

 

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Arc of justice has a looooong curve, but it will get there

Yep, the military has to go too as they hold all the power but she's culpable as well...

maybe they'll set her on fire or something

 

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lol these female Politicians just as demonic as the men

 

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WTF does this have to do with us????