Thread by @ThomasVLinge

#Myanmar 🇲🇲 BREAKING: #AungSanSuuKyi has been arrested alongside the country's President according to her party the #NLD.

It seems that the military is commiting a coup.

Unlike before it will be very hard for #AungSanSuuKyi and the #NLD to profile themselves as champions of democracy in #Myanmar 🇲🇲.

In the short period that they were in a shared position of power they allowed the #Rohingya genocide to take place and defended the perpetrators.

That being said the actions of the #Tatmadaw are clearly a coup and the international community should retaliate.

The people of #Myanmar 🇲🇲 deserve better than to go back to the dark days of military totalitarianism.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: according to reports many more people are being arrested tonight by the #Tatmadaw military. This includes ministers, #NLD figures, regional governors, students leaders.

It's a classic coup.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: internet is down too. #coup

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1356029387133562880?s=19

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: video taken in the hours before the #coup shows military vehicles speeding down the highway towards the capital #Naypyidaw

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: list of arrests continues to grow.

It seems no critic of the #Tatmadaw is safe at this point

https://twitter.com/Rangoon_Film/status/1356031672429502465?s=19

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: as the sun rises over the country the first pictures appear of military roadblocks, like here in the city #Mandalay

#Myanmae 🇲🇲: more reports coming in of internet being cut off in cities around the country.

The #Tatmadaw has seized power before, but they never had to do it in the age of internet

https://twitter.com/IP_Observatory/status/1356050676929814532?s=19

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: photo of the #Bago region government's office, taken over by the #Tatmadaw in the pre-dawn hours. #coup

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: the coup has been confirmed by the perpetrators. #Tatmadaw claims power grab will last for only a year.

Consider that to be indefinite

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1356061953643302914?s=19

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: #Tatmadaw military forces control the streets of the capital #Naypyidaw this Monday

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: across the former capital #Yangon Burmese citizens are banging pots and pans to protest the coup.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: in the former capital #Yangon tonight.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: Burmese citizens protesting the coup from their homes tonight