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President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions, calling the coup a direct assault on Myanmar's rule of law.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

We remove sanctions The United States, I should say, remove sanctions on Burma over the past decade based on progress toward democracy.

The reversal of that progress will necessitate an immediate review of our sanctions laws and authorities followed by appropriate action.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain called for the release of SOUCI and others, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau strongly condemned the military's actions.

The U.

N Security Council will meet on Tuesday, diplomats said, amid calls for a strong response.

In the early hours of Monday, the Myanmar army took power and imposed a state of emergency for a year, saying it had responded to what it called election fraud.

Su Chi's National League for Democracy party, which won a landslide 83% in a November 8th election, said that she called on people to protest against the military takeover.

But the streets were quiet overnight after troops and riot police took up positions in the capital.

Phone and Internet connections were disrupted.

The removal of Souci also sent shockwaves in the region, where in Bangkok, protestors stomped on a photo of Myanmar's army chief outside the Myanmar Embassy.

Theo coup followed days of tension between the civilian government and the military.

In the pre written statement on Facebook, Suki, who was under house arrest between 1989 and 2010 and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 was quoted as saying that an army takeover would put Myanmar back under dictatorship.

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