The Myanmar military detained the country's State Councilor (and de facto leader), Aung San Suu Kyi, the president, Win Myint, and leaders of his party, the NLD (National League for democracy).
This coup comes after the elections of November 8 and leads the country to the situation of military dictatorship that it lived between 1962 and 2011.
There is a video that shows the arrival of the military to the People's Assembly, the country's parliament.
The surprising thing is that it is a gymnastics video: Khing Hnin Wai was recording her aerobics routine and, after a minute and a half, several SUVs and armed vehicles are seen moving behind her without the monitor appearing to notice.
A woman did her aerobics class without realizing that the coup was taking place in Myanmar.
And then it can be seen how the military convoy arrives at the parliament.
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- Àngel Marrades (@VonKoutli) February 1, 2021
Wai introduces herself on her Facebook account as a physical education teacher.
In a post that followed this video, he not only explained that the recording was real, but that in recent months he has recorded other similar scenes on the same site (although without a coup behind, of course).
He also explains that he did not do it either as a joke or to achieve his minute of glory.
တယောက် ဖြူ ရင် အားလုံး လိုက် ဖြူ တယောက် မဲ ရင် အားလုံး လိုက် မဲ တယောက် ဆဲ ရင် အားလုံး လိုက် ဆဲ တတ်တဲ့ ...
Posted by Khing Hnin Wai on Monday, February 1, 2021
The scene posted on Twitter, where it was shared thousands of times, and immediately starred in memes.
For example, on Reddit they placed the teacher dancing on the Capitol during the assault by extremists on January 6.
Also with the fall of the Soviet Union in the background and a visit to North Korea.
As a meme, it is reminiscent of some classics, such as the "9/11 tourist": a photo of a tourist on the roof of the twin towers who had a plane placed right behind.
There were more variations: on the Titanic, with the Hinderberg, while the White House exploded on Independence Day ... Of course in this case the original was a montage.
To know more...
… The Burmese coup junta assures that it will hold power until new elections in a year.
The military alleges electoral fraud in the November voting, but the National Electoral Commission assured that the appointment with the polls was carried out in a perfectly legitimate manner.
US President Joe Biden has called the military coup a "direct assault on democracy and the rule of law" and has threatened sanctions.
… Aung San Suu Kyi and the Army: the impossible relationship that keeps the Nobel from power.
The balance of power between Suu Kyi and the military has been subject to headaches since the NLD won the first free elections in Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 2015, which had begun a democratic transition after half a century of the Military Junta (1962- 2011).
… The coup in Myanmar, in pictures.
… Editorial: Coup in Myanmar.
… United Nations condemns Myanmar's human rights abuses against the Rohingya (December 2019).
A resolution calls on the Burmese government to take urgent action against hatred of the country's minorities fifteen days after Aung San Suu Kyi rejected the allegations of genocide in The Hague.
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