Win Myint, Myanmar’s mercenary chairman who was removed from office by the service, has witnessed that the generals tried to force him to relinquish power hours before the February 1 achievement, advising him he could be seriously harmed if he refused, according to his counsel.
The first public commentary from Wim Myint since he was overthrown challenge the service’s claim that no achievement took place and that power was lawfully transferred to the generals by an acting chairman.
Win Myint was attesting in court alongside Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and de facto government leader before the achievement, at their trial on charges including sedition and incitement, stemming from letters bearing their names that were transferred to delegacies prompting diplomats not to honor the military governance.
Win Myint, who was Myanmar’s head of state, told the court in the capital Naypyidaw that two elderly military officers approached him on February 1 and told him to abdicate, citing ill health.
The chairman turned down their offer, saying he was in good health,” defence counsel Khin Maung Zaw said in an English- language textbook communication transferred to journalists, citing his evidence.
The officers advised him the denial would beget him numerous detriment but the chairman told them he’d rather die than concurrence.”
Aung San Suu Kyi is also listed to swear for the first time latterly this month.
A spokesperson for Myanmar’s ruling military council didn’t answer calls seeking comment on Tuesday.
Crackdown continues
Khin Maung Zaw said the defence rejected the charges against Win Myint and Aung San Suu Kyi as they were being held incommunicado.
Win Myint and Aung San Suu Kyi have dismissed multiple charges against them as false. The defence counsel, representing them both, said Aung San Suu Kyi had suggested Tuesday’s evidence be made public.
Myanmar has been destroyed by violence since the fortified forces interposed to help Aung San Suu Kyi from forming a new government, three months after her party wasre-elected to office in a landslide.
The generals have sought to justify the achievement by claiming that the election was marred by fraud, hanging the country’s sovereignty. Still, the election commission plant no substantiation of wrongdoing in the bean.
The vice chairman, Myint Swe, a former army officer, was sworn in as chairman on February 1 and incontinently handed power to the service to oversee a state of exigency.
The generals haven’t intimately bared how Myint Swe assumed the administration from Win Myint.
The service has been cracking down severely on dissent – firing protesters, arresting suspected dissentients in night raids, shutting down news outlets, and rounding up intelligencers.
On Wednesday, posts on social media showed homes in the Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway regions allegedly being destroyed by the service.
Another post showed ananti-coup night raid in a vill in the Sagaing region. At least 10 political activists were also reported to be detained by authorities in Yangon’s Dagon township on Tuesday.
Since the achievement in February, further than civilians have been killed, according to a original monitoring group.
The special representative of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has yet to visit the country, and accommodations are still underway for him to meet with the service as well as the opposition leaders.