News About Myanmar

The Arakan Front Party (AFP) and the Rakhine Nationalities Party lost to the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the capital Sittwe and Kyaukphyu townships, located 317 miles (510 km) south of Sittwe, after ballots were reportedly counted following the end of the first phase of the regime’s 2025-26 election on Sunday, residents told DVB. A resident who monitored elections in Sittwe told DVB on the condition of anonymity that the AFP won the state p

-Union Prime Minister-NUG Man Win Khine Than stated that starting from the junta’s sham election from the end of 2025 to 2026, there might be heavier battles with increasing momentum. -The joint working committee against the illegitimate election, comprising the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) and the NUG, issued their stance regarding the junta’s election held on December 28. They stated that they would keep fighting against the military dictatorship beyond the el

Mizzima ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) released a statement on 26 December, strongly condemning the Myanmar military junta’s planned elections as illegal and undemocratic, warning that the polls are a political ploy to legitimize continued military rule amid widespread violence, human rights abuses, and the collapse of democratic governance in Myanmar. The text of the APHR statement continues below. Since seizing power, the junta—led by Min Aung Hlaing—has unl

Mizzima Resistance forces detonated two high-intensity bombs at the Township Election Commission office in Ward No. 3 of Kamayut Township, Yangon, in the early hours of 28 December. An official from the Yangon Army confirmed the attack took place at approximately 2:45 am, just hours before polling for the military junta’s first phase of general elections was scheduled to begin. Despite a heavy deployment of security personnel around the constituency, the joint operation was s

Mizzima The military junta’s first-phase general election in Thandaunggyi Township was conducted exclusively within military bases on 28 December, effectively excluding the general public from the voting process. According to local residents, polling stations were only established inside the Bayintnaung Base and the Light Infantry Battalion 124 camp. Ordinary civilians, who make up a population of over 30,000 in the area, were not issued voter lists or allowed to cast ballots

Fighters commanded by the publicly mandated, anti-junta shadow government are executing operations aimed at compromising the junta’s armaments production, intensifying pressure while the regime attempts to hold secure elections