Myanmar military seizes power in a coup and detains Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar military seizes power in a coup and detains Aung San Suu Kyi today (Monday).

According to a statement aired on military, all authority has gone to the top army commander.

Myanmar military seizes power in a coup

Besides, they declared a one-year state of emergency.

BBC reported that the military also detained other senior members of governing party also .

The coup follows a landslide win by Ms Suu Kyi’s party in the election.

In the early hours of Monday the military said it was handing power to commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing because of “election fraud”.

Meanwhile, they deployed soldiers on the streets of the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, and the main city, Yangon.

Moreover, the military says it found millions of irregularities in parliamentary elections.

The army-back opposition lost the election in November.

However, the election commission has rejected the fraud claims.

But the army had threatened to “take action” and now says it will use its emergency powers to organise a new vote.

She urged her supporters to “not accept this” and “protest against the coup”.

In a letter written in preparation for her impending detention, she said the military’s actions put the country back under dictatorship.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces until 2011, when democratic reforms spearheaded by Aung San Suu Kyi ended military rule.

She spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010. She was internationally hailed as a beacon of democracy and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

GTV