Recently, Myanmar’s junta announced the extension of the country’s state of emergency by another six months.

• ‘Coup’ is generally described as a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
• In the November 2020 parliamentary election, Suu Kyi’s party National League for Democracy (NLD) secured the majority of the seats.
• In Myanmar’s Parliament, the military holds 25% of the total seats according to the 2008 military-drafted constitution and several key ministerial positions are also reserved for military appointees. When the newly elected Myanmar lawmakers were to hold the first session of Parliament in 2021, the military imposed a state of emergency for one year citing massive voting fraud in the parliamentary elections.