Has there ever been an attempted military takeover of a democracy in the western world?

What country was taken over by the military?

A coup d’état in Myanmar began on the morning of , when democratically elected members of the country’s ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar’s military—which then vested power in a military junta.

Has there ever been a coup in England?

The UK parliamentary system is sound, and the only rumour of a coup in recent memory was a laughable plot by the press baron Cecil King in 1968, when he attempted to recruit Lord Mountbatten in a bid to unseat Harold Wilson’s government.

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