The United Nations said it would mobilize international pressure to ensure the failure of Monday’s military coup in Myanmar, as Myanmar police filed charges against …
The United Nations said it would mobilize international pressure to ensure the failure of Monday’s military coup in Myanmar, as Myanmar police filed charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for illegally importing communications equipment. Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi was detained on Monday, along with other civilian politicians. She is being held under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to an official from her party. A police request to a court detailing the accusations against Suu Kyi,75, said six walkie-talkie radios had been found in a search of her home in Naypyidaw. The radios were imported illegally and used without permission, it said. The document reviewed on Wednesday requested Suu Kyi’s detention “in order to question witnesses, request evidence and seek legal counsel after questioning the defendant”. A separate document showed police filed charges against ousted President Win Myint for violating protocols to stop the spread of the coronavirus during campaigning for an election last November. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won that election in a landslide but the military, headed by Army chief General Min Aung Hlaing, claimed the vote was marred by fraud and justified its seizure of power on those grounds. The electoral commission had said the vote was fair. The takeover has cut short Myanmar’s long transition to democracy and drawn strong condemnation from Western countries, the G7, and the United Nations.
