On February 1st, Myanmar’s military coup carried out a coup d’etat and locked bureaucrats and Aung San Suu Kyi in prison, condemning that the government made the state unstable by not handling a fraud election in November 2020 properly. Then, the army declared a state of emergency. “Not only was the access of Internet blocked but also Bank’s service temporarily ploughed ahead with shut-down throughout Myanmar including Naypyidaw,” reported a national broadcast in Myanmar, MRTV. Such affairs brought people into revolting against the military dictatorship, calling for imprisoning Aung San Suu Kyi. 

With Myanmar liberated from England in 1948, the military was sworn into office through a coup in 1962. In the light of criticism regarding the lag of democracy and human rights violation by United Nation (UN) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Myanmar’s government implemented a new constitution called “national referendum” in 2007. When the 2015 general election ended up holding in 25 years, National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, unambiguously beat to it, coming rule of military that lasted 53 years to an end. Following the end of the five-year term, NLD reopened a civilian government with 38% of the total seats in the general elections on November 8th, 2020. However, Military authorities have raised suspicions of election manipulation, asserting that lists marking 37 million voters set apart from 8.6 million in real. Despite their argument, National Election Commission dismissed it owing to scant Evidences. “We will move to an action unless they grapple with a doubt,” the army invariably said. Once having gone unheeded, they winded up resorting to violence. 

In accordance with Biden Administration, they will examine the state and take an appropriate step according to it. Combined with this, Australia, the International Human Rights Organization, and the UN Secretary-General censured the armed service and urged to discharge prisoners; China did not voice any denouncement, and some Southeast Asian countries exhibited that they would not interfere, constituting a domestic issue.

Jang Jun-Young (Prof. of Dept. of Myanmar, Busan University of Foreign Studies) said, “Future developments predicted to be largely differentiated into two cases. For one thing, protesters would succeed in gaining democratization back, and the political regime would entrench around Aung San Suu Kyi. For another, dictatorship would prolong and hold of official cling to power even after one year. I cannot stand firm and first which of the two cases would be likelier to happen but have to keep looking the rest of situations.”