US protest against regime’s 2025-26 elections; Three sentenced to over 40 years under Election Protection Law

US protest against regime’s 2025-26 elections

Organizers of protests in front of The White House and the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. told DVB that over 400 members of the diaspora and others denounced the regime’s “sham” 2025-26 elections in Burma, and demanded an end to online scam operations along the Burma-Thai border, on Saturday.  

“We demanded the Chinese government to change its policy [in supporting the regime]. Then, we requested the [U.S.] government to officially reject the regime’s sham elections,” Yin Aye, the Save Myanmar USA spokesperson, told DVB. Nyein Thit, a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party ousted in the 2021 military coup, told DVB that elections are an “attempt to prolong military dictatorship.”

U.S. lawmakers called on the President Trump administration to publicly condemn the regime’s elections, starting on Dec. 28 and continuing into January 2026, in Burma and appoint a representative to lead efforts to address the crisis since the 2021 coup. A congressional hearing on Burma was held on Nov. 19. Similar protests against regime elections in Burma were held in Canada, the U.K., Australia, Japan and South Korea.