After an election last November, Myanmar's army chief had faced imminent retirement, as well as the sidelining of the army's favored political party and foreign calls for him to be tried for war crimes against Rohingya Muslims.
Neither Min Aung Hlaing nor the army was available to comment on any part personal ambitions had played in the coup. Myanmar has denied accusations of war crimes and has said the military's actions were part of a fight against terrorism. But the pro-military party was beaten heavily by the NLD in November's election and Min Aung Hlaing was heading for retirement as he neared the end of a five-year extension to his term, granted in 2016.
Min Aung Hlaing's career took off after he was placed in charge of operations in Myanmar's eastern border where, in 2008, he supported a bloody crackdown on the Saffron Revolution, a monk-led protest against rising fuel prices.
he’s a communist and should be in jail.
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