Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was recently detained by the Burmese military.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press conference Tuesday, Feb. 8, that U.S. requests to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi, the senior minister of state who was taken away after the military coup in Burma, have been rebuffed.
Price said the U.S. tried to engage with Aung San Suu Kyi after the Feb. 1 coup in Burma, but those formal and informal requests were uniformly denied. He said the U.S. will strongly support Burma’s democratically elected government and the right of the people to assemble peacefully. News is now circulating that the Burmese military will detain Aung San Suu Kyi and others until the 15th of this month.
Price also shouted at the press conference to the Chinese Communist Party, which is suspected to have secretly encouraged the Burmese military in this coup, to join the democratic state action and jointly condemn the coup.
According to U.S. media Newsweek, the two former Burmese leaders will both be detained until Feb. 15 after the Burmese military allegedly seized 10 illegally imported walkie-talkies at Aung San Suu Kyi’s Home and Burmese President Win Myint allegedly violated the Chinese Communist Party’s virus (Wuhan pneumonia) prevention rules during last November’s general election.
U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that the United States will impose new sanctions on the Burmese military if it does not hand over power. For his part, Burmese Congressman Soe Moe Thu appealed to UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres on Facebook, asking him to help stop the military coup to protect the Burmese people and the democratically elected government. He said the Burmese people are in desperate need of help and hopes the incident will be considered by the UN as a matter of urgency.
For now, the Biden government and the Burmese military are still in a tug-of-war.
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