A man enters the camera frame from the right and throws a water bottle towards the fire. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Myanmar’s military history, the militia’s lasting power on Myanmar’s politics and the increasing power of the civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, created the conditions for a coup.
A fire burns in the street, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. MORRISTOWN, New Jersey On the morning of February 1, 2021, a military coup in Myanmar ended a four-year experiment in democracy. Kyodo News reported that the currency has been depreciating and the value of Myanmar’s currency Kyat dropped 14 per cent just two months after the coup against the US dollar. Three young men in a crowd of protesters, chanting slogans and holding placards that say Save Myanmar from coup and Military coup end in English with additional Burmese text.
Financial woes in MyanmarĪmid the military’s violence, Myanmar citizens have also been facing an increasing shortage of cash and overall hikes in prices of goods and services as they are withdrawing their savings from banks due to concerns for their future, and economic woes. Myanmar has been in an uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a Feb 1 coup, triggering a massive uprising that authorities have sought to quell with lethal force.ĪAPP said, “On Sunday, in Mandalay region, Moe Myint Aung was shot in the stomach by a bullet and died when the junta raided the Yonetan Ward and Hman Cho Ward to arrest six youths and opened fire to the door to enter the house of Moe Myint Aung”. Now, an outpouring of citizens has taken to the streets to protest the coup and demand that the civilian government be restored. Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested, and other top figures from the ruling party were detained. The Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (AAPP) also informed that a total of 4,409 people are currently under detention as well. 1, Myanmar’s military launched a coup and seized control of the government, less than a decade after the nation began its transition to democracy. It was to this that the audience member referred when he asked why what. As the military crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar continues, nearly 840 people have been killed so far, including three on May 30. In February, military leaders in the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar (also known as Burma), carried out a coup.