BANGKOK — Myanmar’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and other government leaders were detained in early morning raids Monday, the country’s government said as the country ran rife with rumors of an impending coup.
The Reuters news agency quoted Myo Nyunt, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy, as confirming the detentions on Monday. The internet appeared to be down in two major cities in Myanmar.
Myanmar had been celebrated as a rare case in which generals willingly handed over some power to civilians, honoring election results in 2015 that ushered into office the National League for Democracy, whose stalwarts had spent years in jail for their political opposition to the military.
But the army, led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has maintained important levers of power in the country, and the detention of top government leaders appeared to prove the…
