Aung San Suu Kyi, ruling party leaders detained in Myanmar by army

[Michael Corleone]

Man I’m hoping they launch another military operation.

 

[Tomcats]

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[BlackViking]

Man I’m hoping they launch another military operation.

Amader ektu mara khawa dorkar bhai oder theke naile maal ashbe na :p

 

[tower9]

How come Myanmar can never get its act together. Look at Thailand and Vietnam. Don’t they want to compete?

 

[Michael Corleone]

Amader ektu mara khawa dorkar bhai oder theke naile maal ashbe na :p

Eitai plan. Dholai na khaile Bengali der shikkha hoi na. 1971 best example

 

[lonelyman]

Electoral dispute should be solved in Constitution Court. Look like Myanmar hasnt made Constitution Court yet. This create some opportunity from Military to use the hole in the system to gain power again.

Civil Society in Myanmar is also not yet mature. In Indonesia there are many respectable survey companies who conduct Quick Counts that make election result can be seen within hours and it also prevent possible election fraud. Not to mention organization who set up election comes from independent organisation (KPU), democratic voluntarily villages governing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukun_Tetangga) and local governments (who are also part of the counting process are lead by different political parties), so it will be difficult to cheat election.

I think coming from you is very funny, a country had many military coup gives the lesson of civil society

 

[Indos]

I think coming from you is very funny, a country had many military coup gives the lesson of civil society

When the last time Indonesia had military coup ? Care to explain......

 

[lonelyman]

When the last time Indonesia had military coup ? Care to explain......

1965 and mass murder of Chinese?

 

[Indos]

1965 and mass murder of Chinese?

LOL 1965 .....1965 is a communist massacre, many Indonesian communist get killed, native and Chinese. 1965 military coup is also a popular coup and necessary since Soekarno as president with has favored on communist ideology tried to make fifth military force with the member from Communist with 1 million strong men. CCP from China has been ready to supply the weapon. If the coup didnt exist, there will be civil war going on in Indonesia. It was necessary.

Indonesia is able to transform the country from authoritarian military rule into full democracy, AlhamduliLLAH. We also did that step by step. Just for example, Myanmar follow Indonesian step during 1999-2004 to let military occupy 25% of Parliament seats. The different is that, 4 years later, in 2004, the seats were abolished and military go back to barrack and focus to become professional soldiers instead of interfering on our civilian rule.

Myanmar should see Indonesia as their role model instead of China, and they did that in their first democracy period by following Indonesian step to strip military power step by step. Egypt in the other hand choose dramatic transformation and their method has been proven wrong.

 

[fallstuff]

Suu Kyi ego got the best of her causing her literally to disregard the 800 lb gorilla in the room !

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Aung San Suu Kyi, ruling party leaders detained in Myanmar by army

Sweep follows military questioning of election results with parliament due to sit this week.

Military coup in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi detained

Military imposes state of emergency claiming election fraud, after detaining government officials, ruling party leaders.

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Myanmar's civil leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained in an early morning crackdown by the military [File: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]
31 Jan 2021

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the governing party were detained in a series of early morning raids, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday, following days of escalating tension between her civilian government and the country’s military fulled talk of a coup.

Spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters news agency that Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders had been “taken” in the early hours of the morning.

“I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law,” he said.

Myo Nyunt later told AFP news agency that given the situation, “we have to assume that the military is staging a coup.”

Myanmar’s Parliament, where the military is given a quarter of seats and also has proxy, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), was due to sit in the country’s capital Naypyitaw from Monday.

“It does feel like this is the beginning of a military takeover,” Al Jazeera’s Ali Fowle told Al Jazeera from Yangon, noting that politicians from states and regions, as well as prominent political activists had also been detained. Mobile and phone networks were seeing disruption, while state media was also reported to be off-air.

Myanmar’s Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing threatened last week to abolish the constitution in comments that fuelled rumours of a military takeover [File: Ye Aung Thu/Pool via Reuters]“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 on a post on its Facebook page.

Questioning election

The NLD won November’s elections by a landslide, but the military has been waging a months-long campaign to discredit the outcome, despite no firm evidence of wrongdoing.


Last week, the situation escalated when military leader Min Aung Hlaing threatened to abolish the constitution. Two days later, the military backtracked saying media had taken Min Aung Hlaing’s comments out of context.

“The Tatmadaw will defend the 2008 Constitution and only act within the boundary of existing laws,” it said on Saturday.

Across Yangon, the country’s biggest city and commercial capital, many people had begun flying the NLD’s red flag in solidarity with the governing party, while banners had also been erected in the streets declaring support for the elected government.

“It’s at a critical juncture,” said Damien Kingsbury, a Myanmar expert at Deakin University in Australia. “It’s either the end of military involvement in Myanmar politics or it’s a coup. There’s no middle ground on this. This is crunch time.”

A banner erected in support of Aung San Suu Ky and the elected government in Yangon. The new parliament was due to sit on Monday [Thein Zaw/AP Photo]

Military supporters holding the Myanmar national flags march in a protest against the election commission [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]The last week has also been marked by rival protests in support of the NLD and the military.
Myanmar, once a British colony, was led by the military for decades before it began a transition to democracy in 2008.

Aung San Suu Kyi is the only daughter of national independence hero Aung San, and spent years under the house arrest during the military regime.

Good. Army rule is necessary for Myanmar because the army protects Buddhists and Buddhist monks in Myanmar.

Aung San suu Kyi and NLD are secular thugs who will sell Myanmar to non-Buddhists.