The Coup in Myanmar
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup and declared a state of emergency for a year. It returns Myanmar to full military rule after nearly a decade of quasi-democracy that began in 2011. The coup came just hours before the start of a new session of Parliament, which was expected to endorse the results of a November election where de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won in a landslide and the military-backed party performed poorly. The military has alleged voter fraud, but Myanmar's election commission has said that there is no evidence to support its claims. Since then, the country has seen daily peaceful protests and large-scale strikes against military rule, at times clashing with security forces who have been seen using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds. To break it all down, Rohini Kurup spoke with Aye Min Thant, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Myanmar. They discussed Myanmar's history of military rule, what it is like living through a coup and what to expect in the coming weeks.
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| 0:29.0 | When the accusations of voter fraud started to get to come in, |
| 0:37.0 | it was really in the townships that the military line party thought they would win. |
| 0:41.0 | And those were the ones they were contesting, and then the sort of the military got involved, |
| 0:46.0 | and people were concerned about whether or not they would accept the results of the election, |
| 0:51.0 | and the non-line, the commander-in-chief, the person who is now. |
| 0:56.0 | In charge of Myanmar, I suppose you can call it, |
| 0:59.0 | he came out in Mainstayland, kind of assuring the public that they would uphold the Constitution |
| 1:04.0 | and respect the results of the election. |
| 1:07.0 | But as the days were on, the language shifted much more to, |
| 1:11.0 | we will protect the Constitution, we will uphold the Constitution, |
| 1:15.0 | and less and less will set up the results of the election. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Roheny Krupp, and this is the LawFair podcast February 19, 2021. |
| 1:25.0 | On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government |
| 1:30.0 | in a coup and declared a state of emergency for a year. |
| 1:33.0 | It returns Myanmar to full military rule after nearly a decade of quasi-democracy that began in 2011. |
| 1:39.0 | The coup came just hours before the start of a new session of parliament, |
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