Myanmar's year of turmoil since a military coup


FILE PHOTO: Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson and general secretary of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, answers questions from students at Columbia University in New York September 22, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1 last year, citing unaddressed fraud in an election three months earlier won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

Election monitors found no evidence of mass fraud and the NLD dismissed the allegation.

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