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Posted on 01/31/2021 5:56:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Myanmar's powerful military detained the country's leader in an overnight raid, the ruling National League for Democracy said on Monday. Other senior leaders from the party have also been "taken" in an apparent coup.
"I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law," said spokesman Myo Nyunt, revealing that the 75-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders were now in custody.
He added that he also expected to be taken.
"With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup," he added.
Hours later, state-run broadcaster MRTV said it was unable to broadcast as it was facing technical issues.
"Due to current communication difficulties we'd like to respectfully inform you that the regular programmes of MRTV and Myanmar Radio cannot be broadcast," Myanmar Radio and Television said in a Facebook post.
A witness told Reuters that soldiers had been deployed outside the city hall in Yangon, the the country's biggest city.
Internet connections and mobile services in Yangon were also severely disrupted early Monday, with Myanmar's national internet connectivity falling to 75% of regular levels early on Monday, according to internet monitoring service NetBlocks.
"The telecommunication disruptions, beginning approximately 3:00 am Monday morning local time, have significant subnational impact including the capital, and are likely to limit coverage of events as they take place," Netblocks said in a statement.
This comes amidst escalating tensions between Myanmar’s civilian government and its army, which had been at the helm of governance for decades.
A military spokesman was unavailable for comments on Monday.
Last week, however, Myanmar's military commander-in-chief sparked fears of an impending coup.
The army's commander-in-chief, General Min Aung Hlaing told military personnel on Wednesday that it may be "necessary" to revoke the constitution if it was not abided by.
Political tensions escalated when a military spokesman warned the armed forces could "take action" if concerns about election irregularities were not addressed.
However, in a statement on Saturday, the military — officially named the Tatmadaw in Burmese — appeared to backtrack on its rhetoric, saying that the general's remarks had been misinterpreted.
"The Tatmadaw is protecting the 2008 constitution and will act according to the law," it said. "Some organizations and media assumed what they want and wrote as Tatmadaw will abolish the constitution."
"Ten years after the transition to democracy started, the country is facing a huge setback with the Tatmadaw rounding up elected political leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy (NLD) senior members," Romain Caillaud, an associate fellow with the Myanmar Studies Program at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, told DW.
"The consequences will be dire. This is a different world from 1988, with globalization, social media, COVID-19, a new US administration, and China's infrastructure ambition. Backlash against the Tatmadaw will be intense."
The year 1988 refers to a nationwide student-led uprising that culminated in a bloody crackdown initiated by the military, and the installation of a military junta. The push for democracy that year also gave rise to the ruling NLD.
Caillaud added that the Tatmadaw's motivations for the move are "difficult to grasp," but could be due to "a breakdown in trust and communication" between the military and NLD, frustration with the management of ongoing conflict in Rakhine State, and questions over the 2008 constitution.
More to come...
Just change the names in the story, becomes an enjoyable read.
A coup d’état in Myanmar?
Well I guess that pushes America’s coup right off the front page. Our overthrow is now old news.
Gotta’ get that Covid-19 mention in there.
A military willing to enforce and stand up for their constitution. The thought...
Again?
That would be the Flu D’état.
I think a proper analogy would be the Democrats using the military to force out their opposition and calling it “defending the Constitution.”
That’s more like what’s going on in Burma. I mean Myanmar.
Of course we’d never see anything like that here would we?
How does China gain from this?
Am I misstating how you see things? IOW, is your worldview confined to, “Since TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! didn’t win, never mind the other Americans I never deal with and the failure of TRUMP! to persuade a single court, the only reasonable explanation is that the election was stolen”?
I have been on FR a long time. The worship of the TRUMP! personality cult these days is discouraging.
How nice, never voted for Trump!
“Consequences will be dire.” = The Lucky Ones will die.
Former General Myint Swe (who is current vice president and former head of the Yangon military command) to serve as acting president.
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General Myint Swe is transferring all power to Commander in Chief Min Aung Hlaing for the duration of the one year state of emergency.
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Myanmar army commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing has ties with the military of China going back at least a decade. He was sanctioned in 2019 for human rights abuses under his command against the Rohingya.
In a sane world, out of the 81 suits filed in courts at least ONE OF THEM would allow evidence to presented and both sides argue the points. We have literally hundreds of witnesses. Are ALL of them lying? Is that what you believe?
Eat a Snickers
Not one single court ever viewed the evidence of election fraud. Not one. All cases involving election fraud were dismissed on process grounds.
LOVE THAT!!!!
China has more or less owned the military there for at least three decades, and has acted as a rather nasty colonial-style power in country. The Burmese military helps them out with little things like land confiscation, massacres of farmers who object to said confiscation, defending China’s very nasty copper mine there when farmers object to arsenic and lead from the dirty mine poisoning their crops (including the use of white phosphorus). You know, handy little helpful things like that.
Plus, you have no standing.
pro tip: you might want to turn off CNN, MSNBC and FauxNews...
The Burmese military does not care about nor desire to submit to the 2008 constitution. They consider themselves above civilian control, and believe that they are the rightful rulers of Burma.
The issues in Burma do not remotely resemble anything here. Trying to compare the two is comparing apples to rocks. The most comparable western situation was the Imperial German military “state within a state.”
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