![]() ![]() On 2 February 2021, they announced that a new State Administrative Council had been formed to take over all state legislative, judicial and executive functions. The Tatmadaw claimed that widespread election fraud in the November 2020 elections resulted in the NLD landslide victory. President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, both senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), had been arrested.įormer vice president Myint Swe - now serving as President - used his constitutional authority to declare the state of emergency, then transferred state power to the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw), Min Aung Hlaing. On 1 February 2021, military television channel Myawaddy told the people of Myanmar that a state of emergency had been declared. ![]() Japan’s response to the coup in Myanmar 17 April 2021Īuthor: Patrick Strefford, Kyoto Sangyo University Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific ![]()
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