Yangon: Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1 last year, the government expel civilians and capturing its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Almost 1,500 people have since been killed and thousands of others were arrested as junta wage bloody action on dissent.
Here is a look back at this year since the latest military power grab, ending a decade long experiment with democracy after half a century of military rule.
Soldiers detain Suu Kyi and its top allies during the pre-dawn attack on 1 February before the opening of the new parliament.
General claims of fraud in the election of November 2020, which was won by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide.
Their action sparked global condemnation, of Pope Francis to the President of the United States Joe Biden.
Resistance against the coup began with people banging pots and pans – a practice that is traditionally associated with the drive out evil spirits.
The junta tried to block social media platforms including Facebook, which is very popular in Myanmar.
Internet blackout nights later enacted.
The surge in popular dissent over the weekend 6th and 7th of February, with a large crowd gathered in the streets calling for the release of Suu Kyi.
In the following weeks, the protest swelled to hundreds of thousands of people in towns and villages across the country.
Workers started a national strike on 8 February a 19-year-old woman was shot in the head when police opened fire on a crowd in the capital of Naypyidaw on the next day.
Washington immediately announced sanctions against several military officials, including Chief Min Aung Hlaing Junta.
More sanctions following from the UK and EU.
Mya Thwiate Thwate Khait, the woman was shot 10 days earlier, died on February 19 after it became a national symbol of opposition to the junta.
Damage increased violence in street protests and on 11 March, Amnesty International said it had documented the atrocities by the junta, including the use of battlefield weapons on unarmed demonstrators.
A day later, a UN rights expert on Myanmar military accused of crimes against humanity.
More than 100 civilians were killed in the suppression of the protests on March 27 – Day of the Armed Forces, the military’s annual show.
It was the deadliest day since the coup.
The following month, overthrew the civilians forced lawmakers holed announced the formation of a shadow “government of national unity”.
Danny Fenster, an American editor at a local outlet Myanmar border, detained at Yangon airport as he tried to leave the country on 24 May.
After a trial in a prison in Yangon, he was jailed for 11 years for unlawful association, incitement against the military and violating visa rules.
Three days later he was pardoned and released, and flew home to be reunited with his family in New York’s JFK Airport.
In June, more than four months after her arrest, Suu Kyi trial judge in the junta.
He faced an eclectic mix of cargo, including walkie-talkie importing illegally and cancels Covid-19 during election 2020.
Coronavirus Infection exceeded Myanmar since the end of June, with many pro-democracy medical staff strike and the public to avoid a military-run hospital.
People defied the curfew to queue up with oxygen cylinders for their loved ones and volunteers take a grim task to remove the dead for cremation.
In July the World Bank estimates that Myanmar’s economy will contract 18 percent in 2021 as a result of the coup and the outbreak of coronavirus, the poverty rate doubled from the level of 2019.
At the end of July, the junta annulled the polls in 2020, claiming more than 11 million instances of voter fraud.
Six months to the day since the military seized power, the junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said new elections would be held in August 2023.
On December 6, Suu Kyi was imprisoned for four years for incitement against the army and against the rules Covid.
The sentence was later cut to two years.
On January 10, he was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of two charges related to import and have walkie-talkie illegally and one covid rules are violated.
He will be held under house arrest in Naypyidaw while he faced a number of other allegations in court, which could see him jailed for decades.
Year of Myanmar’s chaos: from the coup to imprison Suu Kyi
