Myanmar Junta Lifts Yangon Curfew Ahead of Elections

YANGON—Myanmar’s junta said on Friday 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 people.