A coup d’etat has taken place in Myanmar, also known as Burma, where the army has seized control of the government and arrested civilian leadership. Nobel peace laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who currently serves as State Counsellor, is among the elected officials detained, reportedly under house arrest. Soldiers took Suu Kyi into custody along with the southeast Asian nation's president, Win Myint, and other leaders the National League for Democracy party (NLD), who won a landslide victory in elections last November. Official military channels allege election fraud as their reason for seizing power, now in the hands of Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s senior commander, who has declared a one-year state of emergency. Communications are down in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, and in Yangon. Phone service is disrupted and mobile data connections are not functioning. Major broadcasters are off the air. The Catholic Herald’s repeated attempts to reach Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon throughout the afternoon and into the evening in Myanmar have so far been unsuccessful. Attempts to reach other clergy and the chancery have not availed. The New York Times published photos of people queuing for an ATM, as well as soldiers and police patrolling the streets of the capital and other signs of military activity in the capital and elsewhere. The Times also had pictures of protests at Myanmar’s embassies, like that in Bangkok.