UNSCUN Feb 3The UN Security Council noted the serious consequences of the state of emergency imposed in Myanmar and called for the release of all those arbitrarily detained, including former State Councilor and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. February 2021 in Myanmar, a state of emergency and its grave consequences. They reiterated their call for the release of all those arbitrarily detained, including State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint,» the Security Council said in a press statement. in the country on February 1, 2021, using the constitutional mechanism for the transfer of power in an emergency. They accused the former ruling NLD party of rigging the November 2020 general elections in Myanmar in their favor. The civilian authorities refused to take note of the results of the army's investigation into alleged electoral fraud, or to initiate their own investigation. The military arrested the country's civilian leaders on February 1, bringing a series of administrative and criminal charges against them, blocked the first session of the first session of the new parliament elected in the November elections, and then dissolved the national electoral commission and created a new one, declaring that power would again pass to a civilian government after the end of the state of emergency, which was introduced for two years, and new elections. The actions of the military caused a mass protest movement that, after many months of street clashes between demonstrators and the police, in which more than a thousand people died, turned into an armed struggle against the military government. The opposition created an underground alternative Government of National Unity, which included former deputies and functionaries of the NLD and representatives of ethnic political forces, which is the inspirer of protests and armed struggle. » />Former Myanmar State Councilor Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
