A week after Myanmar coup, tensions still rising SAIS Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence Vikram Nehru discusses what brought the country to this point and where it goes from here By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published Feb 8, 2021 After sweeping the democratic elections in November, Myanmar's National League for Democracy was ousted from power during a pre-dawn coup d'état last Sunday, just hours before the new parliament was set to be sworn in. Since then, the country's military proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, has detained NLD party ministers, including the nation's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. November's elections marked only the second time that Myanmar civilians have democratically elected their leaders, after decades of military junta rule. Dramatic anti-military demonstrations unfolded over the weekend across the Southeast Asian country, and