Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Detained As Military Seizes Power

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Myanmar’s military has seized power after detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party.

The BBC reports that all authority has been given to the top army commander and a one-year state of emergency has been declared, a statement on military TV said.

The coup follows a landslide election win by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD).

She urged her supporters “not to accept this” and “protest against the coup”.

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In a letter written in preparation for her impending detention, Suu Kyi said the military’s actions put the country back under dictatorship.

In the early hours of Monday the military said it was handing power to commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing because of “election fraud”. Soldiers are on the streets of the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, and the main city, Yangon.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces until 2011, when democratic reforms spearheaded by Aung Sann Suu Kyi ended military rule.