Myanmar coup: six months of turmoil
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Myanmar coup: six months of turmoil
YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, ousting the civilian government and arresting its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
More than 900 people have since been killed and thousands of others arrested after the violent suppression of mass protests against junta rule.
Here is a look back at the six months since the military brought Myanmar’s nascent democracy to a sudden end:
Dawn raids
Soldiers detain Suu Kyi and her top allies during pre-dawn raids on February 1, in a coup that ends Myanmar’s decade-long experiment with democracy after half a century of military rule.
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Singapore: For nearly six months, Sean Turnell has been locked up inside one of south-east Asia’s most notorious jails.
Now, with COVID-19 reportedly rife inside Yangon’s Insein Prison, the first images of the Australian economist since he was detained have been released.
An image of Sean Turnell published in state media on Thursday.
Credit:Global New Light of Myanmar
Military mouthpiece
The Global New Light of Myanmar published two photographs of Turnell, a former adviser to overthrown civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, receiving a dose of vaccine at the prison on Wednesday.
Turnell was not named in the newspaper but the pictures appeared alongside an article announcing that the vaccination program had begun at the infamous prison, as 610 of the 9000 inmates received shots on the first day.
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Aung San Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy (NLD) party trounced the military-aligned opposition in the voteMyanmar s junta on Monday cancelled the results of 2020 polls won by Aung San Suu Kyi s party, announcing they
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most six months after deposing the Nobel laureate in a coup.
Investigations had uncovered more than 11 million cases of fraud in the elections in which Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy trounced the military-aligned opposition, the junta s election commission said. They (the NLD)
attempted to take state power from non-NLD parties and candidates by misusing Covid-19 restrictions, said commission chairman Thein Soe.
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