Iran Press/ Asia: Military-owned television said on Monday that power had been handed to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and Myanmar Army has declared a state of emergency for one year.
The coup against the government of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi followed allegations of fraud in the November general election, which her National League of Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.
This is while the country's parliament was due to sit on Monday after the National League of Democracy won the election last November. The army said there was ‘election fraud.’
Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other senior party officials have been detained by the military shortly after 4 a.m. local time Monday.
The detentions followed weeks of tension between the civilian government and the military over the election outcome that stirred fears of a coup.
The human-rights groups called on the military to adhere to democratic norms, calling on Myanmar’s military to release Ms. Suu Kyi and others it said had been unlawfully detained.
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