Myanmar’s military has taken control of the country for one year amid reports de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and many of the country’s senior politicians had been detained.
A presenter on the country’s military-owned television station, Myawaddy, announced the takeover on Monday and cited a section of the military-drafted constitution that allows the armed forces to take control in times of national emergency.
He said the reason for the takeover was in part due to the government’s failure to act on the military’s claims of voter fraud in last November’s election and because it did not postpone the election because of the coronavirus crisis.
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“With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup,” Myo Nyunt, a spokesman for Myanmar’s governing National League for Democracy party (NLD), told AFP news agency.
The televised announcement and the declaration of a state of emergency follow days of concern about the threat of a military coup — as well as denials one would be staged — and came on the morning the country’s new Parliament session was to begin.
The takeover is a sharp reversal of the partial yet significant progress toward democracy Myanmar made in recent years following five decades of military rule and international isolation that began in 1962.