Naypyitaw: Myanmar’s de facto leader Suu Kyi was detained before dawn today by Myanmar’s military after staging a coup and declaring it had taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency.
The new political crisis came after weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, and the civilian government over allegations of fraud in November's elections.
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The military last week signalled it could seize power to settle its 'claims of' irregularities in the polls, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won easily.
Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were detained in the capital Naypyidaw before dawn on Monday, NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told AFP, just hours before parliament was meant to resume for the first time since the elections.
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"We heard they were taken by the military... With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup," said Myo Nyunt.
The military then declared, via its own television channel, a one-year state of emergency.
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