Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party.
All authority
has been given to the top army commander and a one-year state of emergency has
been declared, a statement on military TV said.
The coup
follows a landslide win by Ms Suu Kyi's party in an election which the army
claims was marred by fraud.
She urged her
supporters to "not accept this" and "protest against the
coup".
In a letter
written in preparation for her impending detention, she said the military's
actions put the country back under dictatorship.
Myanmar, also
known as Burma, was ruled by the armed forces until 2011, when democratic
reforms spearheaded by Aung San Suu Kyi ended military rule.
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