In February 2021 which neighbour country face a "coup"?

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Correct — D, Myanmar. On 1 February 2021 the Myanmar military (the Tatmadaw), led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seized power, detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and declared a one-year state of emergency. The army alleged fraud in the November 2020 general election, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had won in a landslide. This is the neighbouring country that faced a coup in February 2021.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Nepal was in a political crisis — PM K. P. Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Representatives (December 2020), a move the Supreme Court later struck down — but this was a constitutional/parliamentary dispute, not a military coup; the Nepal Army stayed in its barracks.  (b) There was no coup in Bangladesh in February 2021; it had a functioning elected government under PM Sheikh Hasina.  (c) No military takeover occurred in Sri Lanka in February 2021; its later 2022 upheaval was an economic crisis with mass protests that forced the President to flee, not an army coup.

Concept: A coup d'etat is a sudden, unconstitutional seizure of state power, usually by the armed forces. Myanmar has a long history of army rule (direct military government 1962-2011). The 2021 coup ended a decade of quasi-civilian, 'disciplined' democracy that had run under the 2008 Constitution — a charter drafted by the military itself that reserves one-fourth of all legislative seats for serving officers.

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