News About Myanmar

Mizzima Justice for Myanmar issued a press release on 27 December calling on governments around the world to reject the illegal sham election being run by the Myanmar junta. In response to the illegal Myanmar junta’s sham election, Justice For Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung says: “The Myanmar military is staging a sham ‘election’ to manufacture legitimacy while it slaughters civilians with total impunity. “This sham election attempts to legitimise the military’s illegal c

Mizzima The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) released a statement on 27 December warning that Myanmar’s junta-planned elections, scheduled to begin on 28 December, cannot be considered democratic or credible, citing widespread violence, human rights violations, and the exclusion of large parts of the population as conditions that fundamentally undermine any genuine electoral process. ANFREL is gravely alarmed by intensified violence against civilians nationwide, incl

Mizzima Civil servants in Myanmar’s administrative capital and regional hubs are being pressured to provide proof of their participation in the military-organized general election, which is scheduled to begin its first phase on 28 December. Employees in Naypyidaw reported that departments issued directives on 26 December, warning staff that failure to vote would leave them to solve their own problems. According to departmental sources, civil servants have been instructed to s

Mizzima Election observation teams from seven countries have arrived in Myanmar to monitor the Military Commission’s phased general election, according to reports in state-run media. Observers from China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, and Vietnam reached the country on 26 December, following the arrival of a delegation from Belarus on Christmas Day. These nations have maintained diplomatic and economic ties with the junta since the 2021 coup, even as Western government

Mizzima The Anti-Sham Election Campaign released a statement on 26 December calling on foreign governments to respect the will of the Myanmar people by rejecting the military junta’s planned elections, warning that the process is designed to manufacture false legitimacy and will only deepen repression, violence, and human suffering in the country. Myanmar people have overwhelmingly rejected the Myanmar military junta’s coup attempt and sham election, the Anti-Sham Election Ca

YANGON: Myanmar's junta said on Friday (Dec 26) it will lift a curfew imposed in Yangon since its 2021 coup, just days before the start of elections it touts as a return to normality. The military staged a 2021 putsch ousting Myanmar's elected government and sparking massive pro-democracy protests in cities nationwide. As security forces battled to put down the demonstrators, the junta enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the largest city of Yangon, home to around seven million