Myanmar in chaos. De facto head of government Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991) was arrested by the armed forces. This was stated by the spokesperson for his party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). We heard that a detainee in Naypyidaw (the country’s capital, ed), we assume the military is organizing a coup, Myo Nyunt said. But during the night between Sunday and Monday, what was a rumor was confirmed in a statement issued by the armed forces. All powers in Myanmar were transferred to General Min Aung Hlaing. The decision was announced by the army shortly after the announcement of a state of emergency for a year and the interim presidency entrusted to General Myint Swe, who was one of the two vice-presidents in office. The military had reported irregularities for several weeks during the legislative elections in November, overwhelmingly won by the NLD.
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The Army Communiqué: We respect the Constitution
The situation is now really uncertain. There would have been other arrests of politicians. The army in recent days had assured that it wanted to protect and respect the Constitution, this with a declaration that came following the growing fears of the coup, complete with exhortations from the UN and the international community to respect democratic norms. The Tatmadaw (the official name of the national armed forces) respects the current Constitution and will respect the law. Organizations and media misinterpreted the commander-in-chief’s speech and formulated their point of view, it was written in the army communiqué, referring to a Wednesday speech by the chief of the armed forces Min Aung Hlaing in which he mentioned the possibility of revoking the Constitution of the country. But then the hypothesis of the coup really materialized and it all fell apart with the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The allegations of fraud
In recent weeks, the army had denounced widespread irregularities in last November’s elections, which saw the triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. The Electoral Commission has denied the existence of fraud, while admitting some inaccuracies in the electoral lists. Today (Monday) the inauguration of the Parliament after the November vote is expected. But it’s not clear what will happen in the next few hours.
In the gradual transition from dictatorship to democracy that began in 2011, there is a delicate balance of power in Burma between the military, which controls 25 percent (which gives it the power to veto any changes to the Constitution) of seats in Parliament and three ministries. key, and the civilian government de facto led by Aung San Suu Kyi active for many years in the defense of human rights on the national scene of her country, oppressed by a rigid military dictatorship – which forced her to live for a long time in a state of home detention – establishing himself as leader of the opposition movement, so much so that he deserved the Rafto and Sakharov prizes (the latter suspended in 2020), before being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
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