By Patrick Goodenough | February 3, 2021 | 4:49am EST
Burmese soldiers arrive at a Hindu temple in Yangon on Tuesday, a day after generals seized power. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Biden administration determined swiftly on Tuesday that the military takeover in Burma constitutes a coup – with statutory implications for U.S. aid – shortly after China called on the international community to “avoid escalating tensions and complicating the situation.”
The U.S. signaled the likely prospect of further sanctions against the military, which seized power on Monday and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians. The takeover occurred shortly before parliament was about to convene for its first session since a November election handily won by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. The military had called the poll fraudulent.
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University of Illinois’ Coup D’état Project has tracked 426 realized coups, 336 attempted coups, and 181 coup conspiracies dating from 1945 to 2019, spanning 165 countries.
Should the U.S. be added to the list? Experts who track these sorts of political disruptions are still hashing that out.
The Coup D’état Project said until some questions can be clarified, calling last week a “destabilizing event” is appropriate. Some experts have suggested calling it a self-coup because of the president’s role in inspiring these events.
Whatever analysts choose to call last week’s events, Marta doesn’t want to see it happen again. She asked WHYY not to use her last name because of her immigration status in the U.S.
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Future regional leaders, he said, may respond to U.S. critiques of their democratic processes with incredulity: “You don’t have moral authority. Your country has serious problems. How are you going to say what I’m doing is bad?”
For many in Latin America, there was considerable irony in the outbreak of political tumult in a nation often accused of fomenting coups throughout the region.
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The leftist Venezuelan government, which the Trump administration has openly sought to remove from power, said in a statement that “with this unfortunate episode, the United States is experiencing what it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression.”
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