Military stages coup in Myanmar, detains Suu Kyi

Naypyitaw: Myanmar’s military staged a coup on Monday and detained senior politicians, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, in a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule. An announcement read on military-owned Myawaddy TV said Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing would be in charge of the country for one year. It said the seizure was necessary because the government had not acted on the military’s claims of fraud in November’s elections — in which Suu Kyi’s ruling party won a majority of the seats — and because it allowed the election to go ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic. AP