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AFP Myanmar’s pro-military party has a decisive lead in the first phase of junta-run elections, with the USDP winning 90 percent of the lower house seats announced so far, official results published on the weekend in state media showed. The military grabbed power in a 2021 putsch that triggered civil war, pitting pro-democracy rebels against junta forces for control of the country. Myanmar’s junta opened voting in the phased month-long election a week ago, with its leaders pl

4th Panel Discussion Key Points Title: Fake Elections and The Fight for The Revolution’s Future Moderator/Facilitator: Thet Swe Win, Executive Director, Synergy-Social Harmony Organization Panelist: Nang Moet Moet, General Secretary, Women’s League of Burma (WLB) Panelist: Sithu Maung, Member of Parliament, PABEDAN Constituency Rangoon, and Spokesperson of CRPH Panelist: Hnin Hnin Hmwe, Joint General Secretary- Democratic Party for A New Society (DPNS) The Junta’s Motives: Le

The military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won three seats up for grabs in the Karen State capital Hpa-An, as well as in Myawaddy and Thandaunggyi townships for the Pyithu Hluttaw, or lower house parliament, during the first phase of voting on Dec. 28. “We have to accept the results whether we like it or not,” Mahn Aung Pyi Soe, the Karen National Democratic Party (KNDP) chairperson, told DVB. The KNDP was established in 2017 but it has yet to win any se

Sources close to Mandalay’s Obo Prison told DVB that no political prisoners were among the 283 inmates released in an amnesty to mark Myanmar’s 78th Independence Day on Sunday. Thaik Tun Oo, the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM) spokesperson, told DVB that he hasn’t found any political prisoners among those released from prisons in Kachin State, Mandalay and Bago regions either, so far. A source close to Yangon’s Insein Prison told DVB that a total of 850 prisoners t

Independence Day amnesty frees 6,186 prisoners Sources close to Yangon’s Insein Prison told DVB that 850 were among a total of 6,186 prisoners released from prisons across the country on Sunday in an amnesty to mark Burma’s 78th Independence Day. The sources added that the only political prisoner freed was Ye Htut, a former minister serving a 10-year sentence at Insein Prison for criticizing the military on social media in October 2023. Sources told DVB that State Counsellor

The National Unity Government (NUG) In Paukkaung Township of Bago Region, People’s Defence Force under Strategic Unit (21) conducted a mine attack on a junta convoy on mobile patrol. Reportedly, there were casualties in the incident. In Hsinpaungwe Township of Magway Region, there was an attack on the junta army on patrol. Reportedly, 2 guns were confiscated. In Salin Township with increased military momentum in Magway Region, the PDFs raided the junta’s departments in the to