# Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows Date: 2021 ## The fact On 1 February 2021, hours before the new Union Assembly was to convene, Myanmar’s armed forces detained [Aung San Suu Kyi](/people/aung-san-suu-kyi), President Win Myint, and NLD leaders, declared a state of emergency, and transferred legislative, executive, and judicial powers to Commander-in-Chief [Min Aung Hlaing](/people/min-aung-hlaing). On 2 February he formed the State Administration Council. ## Context Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint are unresolved person candidates. This run does not mint pages for them. The 2008 constitution’s emergency clause is neighbouring legal text, not a rebate of a completed detention of the elected government. 1 February detention and emergency; 2 February SAC. Store as one coup cluster on 1 February. Keep Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows on 2021-02-01 separate from neighbouring 25 August 2017 Rakhine operations, 1 February 2021 coup, 25 July 2022 hangings, 11 April 2023 Pazigyi strike, 10 February 2024 conscription, and 3 April 2026 parliamentary elevation. The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services from 2011, SAC chairman from 2 February 2021 to 31 July 2025, and president from 10 April 2026 can order clearance operations, a coup, hangings, airstrikes, and a draft. That office does not sit as an ICC judge, does not write an ICJ order, and a contested casualty estimate is not converted here into Contribution.size. ## Evidence and sources U.S. Department of the Treasury carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [capacity for peaceful transfer of power](/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power) and electoral integrity: a completed military seizure of an elected government, not an election-fraud inquiry as a twin. ## What is established and what is not Established: On 1 February 2021 the elected leadership was detained and power transferred to him; the SAC was formed on 2 February, independently recorded. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Detention operations were his forces’. Aung San Suu Kyi’s later trial verdicts are neighbouring.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows, not a later speech about Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows on 2021-02-01 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of the Treasury communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Armed forces detain the elected government and transfer power to Min Aung Hlaing; SAC follows into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He received transferred power and formed the SAC. Detention operations were his forces’. Aung San Suu Kyi’s later trial verdicts are neighbouring. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Min Aung Hlaing: https://factrail.ai/people/min-aung-hlaing ## Drivers - Min Aung Hlaing junta atrocity (Myanmar): https://factrail.ai/drivers/min-aung-hlaing-junta-atrocity - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-timeline-idUSKBN2A70D6/ - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0024 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-coup-sac-2021