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Myanmar Coup d’Etat
BY CARTIER ICHSANITALIIA LEMBAYUNG, RAIHAN KHALIQ ADIPRATAMA, AND AKBAR EMIRSYARIF MACHFUD
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SUMMARY
The 2021 Myanmar Coup d’Etat began on the morning of 1 February 2021, occured in the aftermath of the general election on 8 November 2020, in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide (396 out of 476 seats). Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of pro-democracy civilian, currently is under house arrest and has been charged with possessing illegally walkietalkies.
Myanmar has toggled between military and civilian leadership since 1948. Suu Kyi spent nearly 15 years in detention by the ruling Military Junta as a result of organizing rallies calling for democratic reform. Therefore the military and its official arm immediately claimed the election were fraudulent as to demand a rerun of the election. However, Suu Kyi’s leadership wasn’t all bad for the military, most notably she backed the Tatmadaw’s 2017 campaign that indicates of genocidal intent of Rohingya. GLOSSARY
Military Junta (Junta militer)
Meaning: A military group that rules a country after taking power by force.
Ex: the military junta killed roughly 30,000 people within one to two years.
Source: (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from Lexico Powered by OXFORD: https://www.lexico.com/definition /military_junta
Meaning: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Genocide (Genosida)
Ex: If the UN accepts that genocide is occurring, it is legally obliged to take action to stop it.
Source: Rome Statute, Article 6
Meaning: A sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force.
Coup d'Etat (Kudeta)
Ex: On April 2017, a right-wing coup d’état plot was foiled in Austria. As a result, the leader, Monika Unger, and her subordinates were arrested after they tried to organize an armyled coup.
Source: Augustyn, A. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica: https: //www.britannica.com/topic/coup-detat
Meaning: An order of a criminal court, whether pre-trial or following sentencing after conviction of a crime, restricting a criminal defendant to his or her residence and a prohibition on leaving the residence except under certain conditions and at specified hours, if any.
Ex: House arrest is an alternative to standard incarceration at various stages of the criminal justice process.
Source: The Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from TheLaw.com: https: //dictionary.thelaw.com/house-ar-
Meaning: The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing.
Detention (penahanan)
Ex: One of the effects of police detention is isolation from friends and family.
Source: (n.d.) Retrieved February 25, 2021, from The Law Dictionary: https: //thelawdictionary.org/detention/
