Myanmar military seizes power, Aung Sang Suu Kyi in detention

Myanmar’s military took charges of power for a year and detained Aung Sang Suu Kyi and other leaders. The U.S. and Australia try to persuade the military.

The Myanmar army conducted raids on Monday morning, before which NLD (National League for Democracy) spokesperson Mayo Newt said that President Aung Sang Suu Kyi and other senior leaders of the party have been detained by the army following the crackdown on Monday morning. He said that President Aung Sang Suu Kyi and other leaders were 'raised' early in the morning. Mayo feared that he too could be detained soon.

After declaring a state of emergency in response to its claims of election fraud, Myanmar’s military has taken power for a year, reports said. The military has yet to release a statement. Australia and the U.S. try to persuade Myanmar’s military to release all those detained and to respect the results of the election. “The United States opposes any endeavor to change the result of recent elections or obstruct Myanmar’s democratic transition and will take action against those who are at fault if these steps are not reversed,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

After decades of military rule, when Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory in the second general election. Since then the military and its political groups have demanded an investigation to authorities claiming mass voting fraud. Myanmar’s election committee last week cleared the doubt announcing voting transparent and fair, and the U.S., United Nations, and the European Union urged the military to respect the results. In a statement on Sunday, Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s Military), refused to object to the election’s result and said it “finds the process of the 2020 election unacceptable.”

During this state of emergency, that could be a dissolution of the union or “national solidarity.”, the Constitution permits the military to take over the power. Even after a shift to democracy a decade ago, Myanmar’s Military had preserved a wide range of powers under the constitution. This agitated the U.S. and European Union to boost the sanctions on the Southeast Asian country. But the hope that initiated a wave of interest from foreign investors superficially dissipated because of a violent crackdown in opposition to Rohingyas that prompted charges of “genocide” against Suu Kyi’s government.