Min Aung Hlaing
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court in person Monday, May 24, 2021, for the first time since the military arrested her when it seized power on Feb. 1, Myanmar media reported.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
Myanmar's Suu Kyi makes first in-person court appearance

May. 24, 2021 03:32 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020 file photo, a woman displays her finger marked with ink indicating she has voted as she leaves a polling station, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. A major election monitoring organization says last November’s election results in Myanmar were representative of the will of the people, rejecting the military’s allegations of massive fraud that served as its justification for seizing power. ANFREL, the Asian Network for Free Elections, said in a 171-page report said procedural safeguards helped make the polling process transparent and reliable. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
Election watchdog says no credible proof of Myanmar fraud

By Grant Peck May. 17, 2021 11:08 AM EDT

Anti-coup protesters run after seeing police and soldiers arrive to disperse their demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Demonstrations have continued in many parts of the country since Saturday's meeting of leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as have arrests and beatings by security forces despite an apparent agreement by junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to end the violence. (AP Photo)
UN calls for return to democracy in Myanmar, end to violence

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 30, 2021 01:53 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 21, 2021, file photo, armed police remove makeshift blockages set up by protesters as they patrol streets in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Political turmoil and disruptions following the coup in Myanmar could undo years of progress and double the number of its people living in poverty to nearly half the population, a United Nations report said Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/File)
UN report says Myanmar poverty could double from coup chaos

By Elaine Kurtenbach Apr. 30, 2021 01:44 AM EDT

Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute, holding banner read " Yangon Strike will defeat all enemies" during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders have demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Myanmar during an emergency summit in Jakarta with its top general and coup leader. (AP Photo)
Myanmar protests continue after ASEAN peace initiative

Apr. 26, 2021 12:13 PM EDT

Activists ride their bicycles as they flash a three-finger salute of defiance during a rally called 'bike for Myanmar' against the military coup in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders met Myanmar's top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
ASEAN leaders tell Myanmar coup general to end killings

By Niniek Karmini Apr. 23, 2021 09:51 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Feb. 24, 2021 05:44 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 24 The Democrat &...

Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses her statement during the Human Rights Council special session on "the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar" at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in Myanmar is take in person and in virtualle due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
UN rights body adopts watered-down text on Myanmar coup

By Jamey Keaten Feb. 12, 2021 06:35 AM EST

Demonstrators in traditional costumes march with national flags against the military coup during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Large crowds demonstrating against the military takeover in Myanmar again defied a ban on protests Thursday, even after security forces ratcheted up the use of force against them and raided the headquarters of the political party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi a day earlier. (AP Photo)
Ethnic minorities protest Myanmar coup, as opposition grows

Feb. 11, 2021 09:28 AM EST

Protesters run after police fire warning-shots and use water cannons to disperse them during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Police cracked down Tuesday on the demonstrators protesting against Myanmar’s military takeover who took to the streets in defiance of new protest bans. (AP Photo)
Myanmar junta cracks down on crowds defying protest ban

Feb. 09, 2021 05:18 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, vehicles make their ways on a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The military coup in Myanmar is unlikely to do the country’s struggling economy any good at all. The country once considered a promising last frontier has languished as the pandemic added to its challenges. (AP Photo/File)
Military coup yet another blow for Myanmar's sagging economy

By Elaine Kurtenbach And Victoria Milko Feb. 05, 2021 02:41 AM EST

People clap to make noise as they participate in a civil disobedience action to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2021. About 70 recently elected lawmakers defied the new military government on Thursday by convening a symbolic meeting of the Parliament that was prevented from opening. They signed their oaths of office at a government guesthouse in the capital, Naypyitaw, where about 400 of them were detained in the aftermath of the takeover. (AP Photo)
Resistance to coup grows despite Myanmar's block of Facebook

Feb. 04, 2021 06:46 AM EST

A man reads a local daily newspaper at his shop near a market Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. A coup in Myanmar on Monday left the military in control under a one-year state of emergency. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
Myanmar charges Suu Kyi, giving legal basis to detain her

Feb. 03, 2021 01:18 AM EST

Myanmar's military stand guard at a checkpoint manned with an armored vehicles blocking a road leading to the parliament building Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the country's capital on Tuesday, a day after the military staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo)
People in Myanmar honk horns, bang on pots to protest coup

Feb. 01, 2021 11:53 PM EST

FILE - In this May 6, 2016, file photo, Aung San Suu Kyi, left, Myanmar's foreign minister, walks with senior General Min Aung Hlaing, right, Myanmar military's commander-in-chief, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar military television said Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country’s senior politicians including Suu Kyi had been detained. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
EXPLAINER: Why did the military stage a coup in Myanmar?

By Victoria Milko Feb. 01, 2021 03:42 AM EST

Vehicles make their ways on a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Myanmar military television said Monday that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country's senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained. (AP Photo)
Myanmar's military takes power in coup, detains Suu Kyi

Feb. 01, 2021 12:12 AM EST