Myanmar Military Detains Aung San Suu Kyi And The President Of Myanmar In Two Different Locations

Aung San Suu Kyi. (Wikimedia Commons / Claude Truong-Ngoc)

JAKARTA - The Myanmar military has moved President U Win Myint's place of detention from the president's residence to a house near the parliament gate in Naypyitaw, after several days of detention since the coup on Monday 1 February.

Under the Constitution, the president, vice president and speaker of parliament remain in office until successors are elected. National League for Democracy (LND) Party lawyers condemned the military coup as a violation of the Constitution. However, the coup leaders claimed that they had acted constitutionally.

A source from the National League for Democracy Party said State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health and is serving house arrest at his home in Naypyitaw.

Meanwhile, NLD U vice president Henry Van Thio, an ethnic chin, has been under house arrest at the official residence in Naypyitaw since Monday. The two speakers of the Myanmar Parliament are also under house arrest.

Separately, Mayor Dr. Naypyitaw. Myo Aung has been ordered to vacate his official residence within two days. Several trade union ministers have not been allowed to leave Naypyitaw.

A total of 134 members of parliament and political activists have been detained by the military since staging a coup earlier this week