Published 12:38 IST, February 3rd 2021
Myanmar medics organise 'Civil Disobedience Movement' in protest against military coup
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD has called for the immediate release of its State Counsellor and for Myanmar’s 2020 election results to be acknowledged by the military.
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party of Aung San Suu Kyi has called for her immediate release and for Myanmar’s 2020 election results to be ackwledged by military. Min Aung Hlaing, country’s military seized power on February 1 and put Suu Kyi amongst or political leers under House Arrest. arrest of Myanmar’s de facto leer has t only led to a situation of crisis but also sparked outr across nation.
A statement on Facebook p of May Win Myint, an official working for Suu Kyi’ National League for Democracy (NLD) party, said party’s executive committee urged military to ackwledge results of vember’s election and called for parliamentary session due to start this week to go ahe. post also called on military for her release.
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Civil disobedience
Although streets of country capital Yangon remained calm on February 2, people took to online platforms to show ir support for Suu Kyi. Many changed ir profiles pictures to red in support for arrested leer. Many ors lit candles or banging pots and pans in symbolic civil disobedience movement. campaign also stretched across doctors and health workers who asserted that y will t work under military, starting from Wednesday, February 3.
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Coup
As Myanmar’s military has taken steps to undermine country's democratic transition, including arrest of nation’s de facto leer Aung San Suu Kyi and few or civilian officials in Burma, several governments and human rights groups across globe expressed concern and urged military to immediately release all those who have been detained unlawfully. Myanmar Army, on or hand, has said that it carried out detentions in response to fraud in last vember’s general election that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide. According to Myanmar’s local media outlet, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is w in control of country and a state of emergency has been imposed for one year.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's party calls for her release as medics join Civil disobedience Movement
11:28 IST, February 3rd 2021