Aung San Suu Kyi charged with election fraud: What's happened in Myanmar since junta coup
FirstpostJunta chief Min Aung Hlaing said fresh elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023, extending the military’s initial timeline given when it seized power On Tuesday, State media reported that Myanmar’s junta has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with committing electoral fraud during the 2020 polls. US state department official said: “Everything we’ve seen, and we’re being told from our folks on the ground, is that there is just sort of gross mismanagement of the economy.” “We have to attribute the dire economic situation to the lack of political stability and all the uncertainty.” In August, the Central Bank of Myanmar tried tethering the kyat 0.8 percent either side of its reference rate against the dollar, but gave up on 10 September as pressure on the exchange rate mounted. Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said fresh elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023, extending the military’s initial timeline given when it seized power. “The junta is using spurious claims of electoral fraud as a key justification for its coup,” International Crisis Group’s Myanmar senior advisor Richard Horsey told AFP.