More than 1,000 civilians have been killed, according to a local monitoring group.
MYANMAR PRESIDENT CRACKED
The military has cracked down brutally on dissent - shooting protesters, arresting suspected dissidents in night raids, shutting down news outlets, and rounding up journalists. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has justified his power grab by citing alleged electoral fraud in the November poll won by the NLD. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the putsch with huge protests, renewed clashes between the military and ethnic rebel armies in border regions, and an economy spiraling into freefall. Suu Kyi is scheduled to testify for the first time later this month. Win Myint and Suu Kyi will call no defense witnesses in their incitement trial, their lawyers said last week. The junta - officially known as the State Administration Council - has threatened to dissolve Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party and continues to wage a bloody campaign against opponents to its rule. Win Myint - a longtime ally of Suu Kyi - faces a raft of charges, including incitement and sedition. Similar dawn raids took place across the capital Naypyidaw, taking key civilian leaders into custody and ending the army’s brief flirtation with democracy. The officers warned him the denial would cause him much harm but the President told them he would rather die than consent,” he added. “The president turned down their proposal, saying he was in good health. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the United States would stand with Southeast Asian allies in defending freedom of the seas, democracy and human rights and backed efforts to hold the Myanmar. The 69-year-old recounted how two senior army officers entered his room in the early hours of February 1 “and urged him to resign from his post of the presidency, giving the reason of ill health,” lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said. YANGON, Myanmar (AP) Myanmars president announced a major Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, a move analysts see as advancing the once-pariah nations. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed, according to a local monitoring group.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
Suu Kyi, whose father led the fight for independence from Britain in the 1940s, lived abroad before returning in the 1980s. The junta - officially known as the State Administration Council - has threatened to dissolve Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party and continues to wage a bloody campaign against opponents to its rule. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says if the National League for Democracy wins, she will take a post above the president.
A mere ten years after the military acceded to democratic governance, it has once again retained absolute control over Myanmar by circumventing its Constitution. “The president turned down their proposal, saying he was in good health. Myanmar’s ousted president Win Myint has described the dramatic early moments of the February coup that ended his country's short-lived democratic experiment and plunged it into chaos. The SPDC has replaced the President, Speakers and Ministers with military personnel, thereby invalidating the Vice-President’s appointment as Acting President. The 69-year-old recounted how two senior army officers entered his room in the early hours of February 1 “and urged him to resign from his post of the presidency, giving the reason of ill health,” lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said. Suu Kyi, Myanmar President Win Myint and other NLD leaders had been taken in the early hours of the morning, NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters by phone.
MYANMAR PRESIDENT TRIAL
Win Myint, who was detained along with civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, made the comments as he testified for the first time at his trial for incitement in a junta court. YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s ousted president described on Tuesday turning down a deal to vacate his seat and save himself in the early moments of the February coup that snuffed out his country’s short-lived democratic experiment, his lawyer said.
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