China Fails to Condemn Myanmar Military Coup Despite International Concern


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Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar President Detained Amid Coup Fears Military leaders, who hold 25 percent of parliamentary seats per the national constitution, have claimed the NLD used electoral fraud to win its November landslide. The military also called for the elections to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but this demand was rebuffed. Kyi has called on her supporters to protest against the coup. "The actions of the military are actions to put the country back under a dictatorship," the NLD said in a statement signed with Kyi's name. "I urge people not to accept this,...