Citizens of Yangon, Myanmar, tap pots and trays on the 2nd to protest the coup conducted by the military and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi’s state adviser. Yangon = AFP Yonhap News
Myanmar police prosecuted state adviser Aung San Suu Kyi for possession of illegal radio devices and put them in custody until the 15th. Anti-coup protests, which are on fire in civil society, are also expected to spread further with this incident.
On the 3rd (local time) of Reuters, citing a Myanmar police document, Suu Kyi reported that the torture was charged with violating the import and export laws. Myanmar police found six small wireless devices in the process of searching the home of a shame advisor after a military coup on the 1st, claiming that these wireless devices were illegally imported and used without permission. He decided to detain the shame torture until the 15th for evidence collection and interrogation of the accused. Bloomberg News reported that if convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.
In addition, President Yun Min, who was detained on the same day as Suu Kyi’s torture, was charged with violating the guidelines for quarantine against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) during the general election in November last year. On that day, the military had full-fledged release of 400 members, including lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Peoples League (NLD), who were in custody, but State adviser Suu Kyi and President Yun Min raised new charges without releasing them.
There are criticisms of the police’s prosecution as a military tactic to suppress shame torture and democratic forces. The chairman of the ASEAN Human Rights Council, Charles Santiago, criticized it as “a ridiculous measure of the military to justify the illegal deprivation of power from a democratically elected government.”
Resistance from Myanmar citizens also began. The night before, in Yangon, the largest city, a demonstration was held in which a pot was struck and a car horn was sounded at once, meaning “to drive out the devil (military).” National hospital doctors also went on strike or put ribbons on their chests and joined the’military boycott’. Netizens are appealing for help from the international community by posting “save Myanmar” on Social Network Service (SNS).
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