Burma’s Senior Minister of State Aung San Suu Kyi (front) voted last year and her National League for Democracy won the election, but was detained by the military on charges of fraud.
The U.S. was denied a meeting with Myanmar’s spiritual leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was taken away from the country. The U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press conference on February 8 that the U.S. tried to contact Aung San Suu Kyi after the February 1 coup by the Burmese military, but the requests were “of course denied,” including formal and informal requests. The Burmese military is rumored to be detaining Ung San Suu Kyi and others until the 15th.
The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Ung San Suu Kyi, won the election last November, but the military did not concede defeat, claiming that there was fraud but not producing evidence. The military suddenly took away State Senior Minister Ung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and a number of senior members of the ruling party, and later declared a one-year state of emergency in Myanmar, with Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing as the country’s leader, triggering a public outcry and the largest demonstration in recent years.
The 64-year-old Min Aung Hlaing made his first appearance after the coup, giving a talk on TV, accusing serious fraud in last year’s election and promising to hold a new election after the end of the state of emergency, when he would hand over power. But no one believes the military’s claims, the Burmese people have taken to the streets, the 2 largest cities in Myanmar Yangon and Mandalay (Mandalay) protests, hundreds of thousands of people involved, is the country’s largest march in recent years, shaking the international.
Price said at a press conference that the U.S. has been unable to contact her since the arrest of Ungsan Suu Kyi, including requests for meetings in formal and informal ways that have been denied. He also shouted to the Chinese Communist Party, which is suspected of secretly encouraging the coup by the Burmese military, to join the democratic state in condemning the coup.
Ung San Suu Kyi is accused by the military of seizing 10 illegally imported walkie-talkies at her Home, while Win Myint is suspected of violating Wuhan pneumonia prevention rules during last November’s election, and both are scheduled to be detained until the 15th, Newsweek noted.
U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that new sanctions will be imposed if the Burmese military does not hand over power. Burmese Congressman Soe Moe Thu has appealed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Facebook to help stop the military coup in order to protect the Burmese people and the democratically elected government, who are in desperate need of help and want the incident to be considered by the UN as a matter of urgency.
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