He broadcast the gymnastics class live and inadvertently recorded the coup in Myanmar | the Chronicle

Like every day, a physical education teacher broadcast his routine live in the streets of Myanmar. What he never imagined was that in the midst of the routine, a military convoy would pass behind him in the midst of the coup.

In the midst of a crisis in the country south of China, Khing Hnin Wai, a physical education teacher working for the Burmese Ministry of Education and influencer, went viral while starring in this tragicomic scene. The woman did not realize that while she was doing her gym class, the soldiers in the back were taking power with their big military trucks.

Angel Marrades, a University of Salamanca graduate political scientist who identifies on Twitter as @VonKoutli, was the one who released the video. When in doubt about the veracity of the video, filmed in the Burmese town of Naipyidó, Ángel also posted the Facebook link where the course was first broadcast.

The Burmese army declared a state of emergency on Sunday for a period of one year and appointed an interim president general, after arresting the head of civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi, who called the city to “not accept the blow”, and other senior officials.

Military intervention is necessary to preserve “stability”, as warned by officials. In addition, they accused the electoral commission of failing to resolve the “huge irregularities” that happenedAccording to them, in the legislative elections in November, won by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, fighter for democracy in the country, for which she received the Nobel Prize.

“We will implement a true multiparty democracy”, claimed the military, who added that they would transfer power after “The holding of free and fair general elections”.