State Administration Council

This article is about the military junta set up in Myanmar after the 2021 coup d'etat. For the military government established in 1988, see State Peace and Development Council.

State Administration Council
နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ
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Overview
Established2 February 2021 (2021-02-02)
StateMyanmar
LeaderChairman (Min Aung Hlaing)
Appointed byCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services exercising emergency powers[1]
Responsible toCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services
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The State Administration Council (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ; abbreviated SAC or နစက) is the military junta[2] currently governing Myanmar, established by Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing following the February 2021 coup d'état and the declaration of a state of emergency by the National Defence and Security Council.[3][4] Under the constitution, the Commander-in-Chief holds absolute legislative, executive, and judicial power during a state of emergency. Min Aung Hlaing has delegated his legislative power to the SAC, which he chairs.[5] It has formed a provisional administration, also led by Min Aung Hlaing as Prime Minister of Myanmar.[6]

The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has designated the SAC as a "terrorist group",[7] and SAC's legitimacy is contested by the competing National Unity Government of Myanmar (NUG).

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  3. ^ "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ခေါင်းဆောင်သည့် ၁၁ ဦးပါ စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဖွဲ့စည်း". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  4. ^ "နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဖွဲ့စည်း". Voice of America (in Burmese). 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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  6. ^ "နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေး ကော်မတီကို အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အဖြစ် ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Myanmar's Military Council Labeled 'Terrorist Group'". 2 March 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.