The day began with mobile internet blackouts from 4am,local time,with the parade of army units and civil servants taking place later in the morning. Also taking part were delegations from Myanmar’s Karen,Chin,and Kayah states,where ethnic and anti-military armed conflicts rage.
Min Aung Hlaing denounced resistance to the new regime.
“The violence in Myanmar is causing chaos and people are suffering,” he said at the televised ceremony.
One of the main groups behind the protests,the General Strike Committee of Nationalities,said on Facebook that political prisoners being held at Insein prison in Yangon had begun a hunger strike on Saturday. It was not clear how many prisoners had begun the hunger strike.
A decade of democratic reforms and economic progress in Myanmar came to an end with the February 1,2021 coup.