#Myanmar coup 2021 series#
This announcement followed a series of charges against the NLD party’s member. Further, the military declared November 2020 elections invalid with a promise to hold fresh elections in a year. Myanmar has returned to military rule after a decade of ‘democracy’, with general Min Aung Hlaing as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces seizing power. The unsettling lull was followed by an announcement on the military-owned channel, Myawaddy TV, declaring a state of emergency and military control over the nation for a year.
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Hours after her detention, TV channels went off-air, internet activity slowed down, telecom networks were suspended. Five days later, despite winning the second democratic election in November 2020, Suu Kyi, along with several other senior figures of the NLD party, was detained by the State’s military, also known as Tatmadaw. On January 26, military spokesperson Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun had signalled to ‘take action’ against National League for Democracy (NLD) party’s landslide victory, alleging an election ‘fraud’. The morning of February 1, 2021, marked an end to Aung San Suu Kyi’s sojourn as the de facto head of Myanmar in a military coup. A decade later, the coup has again tossed the country back into a long spell of uncertainty and instability. The last time a military coup happened in Myanmar, it lasted over fifty years under three different military heads until the military junta eventually dissolved in 2011. L.L.B student from Amity University Chhatisgarh Myanmar Coup 2021: Anti-Coup Protester, image by Reuters.
Himani Baid spells out the important details about the Myanmar Coup 2021, reflecting on its historical context. A decade after, the coup has once again tossed the country back into a long spell of uncertainty and instability.
The last time a military coup happened in Myanmar it lasted over fifty years under three different military heads until the military junta eventually dissolved in the year 2011.
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