UNISON statement on the coup in Myanmar

After a landslide victory for the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in November 2020, Myanmar’s military has staged another coup.
Today was supposed to be the day when newly-elected MPs convened to choose the president, who would then form a government. Instead, the military has falsely claimed election fraud and justified the coup by saying that it will only take power for one year.
Having already got away with genocide against the Rohingya and repeated human rights violations in