Scenes from Yangon, Naypyitaw, the day after coup

Описание: (2 Feb 2021) Myanmar appeared calm on Tuesday morning one day after a military coup and the detainment of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders.
Newspapers on sale differed in how they presented the dramatic turn of events on the front pages.
Some talked openly of the power grab and a state of emergency, while the government-run Global New Light of Myanmar instead wrote of the "undeniable duty" of the armed forces to act.
An announcement read on military-owned Myawaddy TV said Monday that Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing would be in charge of the country for one year.
It said the seizure was necessary because the government had not acted on the military's claims of fraud in November's elections - in which Suu Kyi's ruling party won a majority of the parliamentary seats up for grabs - and because it allowed the election to go ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The takeover came the morning the country's new parliamentary session was to begin and follows days of concern that a coup was coming.
The military maintains its actions are legally justified - citing a section of the constitution it drafted that allows it to take control in times of national emergency - though Suu Kyi's party spokesman, as well as many international observers, have said it amounts to a coup.

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