Suu Kyi Detained, Emergency Declared in Myanmar

Yangoon, 1/2: Myanmar’s military has detained the Country’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in a military coup. It has also declared a state of emergency in the country.

The military ruled the country for five decades and there was a rift between them and the civilian government over the election fraud in November.

Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were detained, just hours before parliament was meant to resume for the first time since the elections in the capital Naypyidaw before dawn on Monday, NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told AFP.

“We heard they were taken by the military… With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup,” he said.

The military declared about the emergency via its own television channel.