UNISON statement on the coup in Burma

After a landslide victory by the NLD party in November 2020, Burma’s military have staged yet another coup.
Today was supposed to be the day when the newly elected MPs convened to choose the President, who would then form a government. Instead, the military have falsely claimed election fraud and justified the coup by saying they will only take power for one year.
Having already got away with genocide against the Rohingya and repeated human rights violations in other ethnic states, they ca