Myanmars junta skød på anti-statskup folkemængder. fem år senere Min Aung Hlaing gjort sig præsident
NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR - On February 1, 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s Tatmadaw detained Aung San Suu Kyi and the elected civilian government, declared a state of emergency, and called it a correction. Within days the streets filled. By February 9, police in Naypyitaw were using water cannon, rubber bullets, and live fire on crowds that wanted the elected leader released. Reuters photographer Stringer caught an officer leveling a weapon at the line. That is the image on this page.
The coup did not stay a protest story. Lethal force against the Civil Disobedience Movement ignited a civil war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and wrecked the economy. Independent monitors have put the combined combatant and civilian death toll well past 100,000. Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted in a sequence of closed-court cases and kept off the board. The junta ran a tightly staged election, then converted the general into a civilian title.
Fra kuppelleder til præsident på papir
Min Aung Hlaing trådte tilbage som militær chef, derefter den 3. april 2026 en pro- militære parlament valgte ham landets 11. præsident med 429 af 584 stemmer. Han aflagde ed den 10. april og indsatte en EU-regering fyldt med de samme ministre. BBC, Al Jazeera, og Reuters alle beskrevet afstemningen som formalisering af et greb han havde holdt siden kuppet. Den internationale krisegruppe kaldte den nye administration militær konsolidering, ikke en overgang.
AEGIS Alliance forveksler ikke et parlamentarisk gummistempel med legitimitet. Manden, der beordrede tropper på gaden i 2021, har nu et civilt brevhoved. Krigen sluttede ikke, da han skiftede tøj. Relateret dækning sidder med vores Internationale nyheder desk, Politik fil, og tidligere rapportering om, hvordan sikkerhed stater håndtere uenighed, herunder Britiske krybdyr undersøgelse.
