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Myanmar military signals leadership changes as parade begins

March 27, 2026 admin

Myanmar’s junta signalled changes in the military’s leadership ahead of the country’s annual show of force on Friday (March 27, 2026), potentially clearing the way for defence chief Min Aung Hlaing to become President. Tanks and military trucks laden with rocket launchers and mobile field guns trundled through the streets as thousands of soldiers marched…

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Ballots without a country: a quiet case for pluralism in Myanmar

March 26, 2026 admin

On 19th August 2011, a former General and Myanmar President Thein Sein’s decision to invite recently released Aung San Suu Kyi at his residence for dinner marked a quiet but consequential turning point in Myanmar’s political trajectory. The meeting, understated in form yet profound in implication, was widely interpreted as the first genuine signal from…

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Myanmar pro-military party declares victory in junta-run polls

January 26, 2026 admin

Volunteers of the Union Election Commission (UEC) set up electronic voting machines at a polling station, one day before the third election phase, in Yangon on January 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday (January 26, 2026), after a month-long vote…

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Myanmar pro-military party wins Suu Kyi’s seat in junta-run poll: party official

January 12, 2026 admin

The Military deposed and detained Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup, claiming she secured a landslide election win over pro-military parties the previous year by means of massive voter fraud. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s main pro-military party won the parliamentary seat of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections run under…

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Myanmar votes in second phase of military-run election

January 11, 2026 admin

A voter casts ballot at a polling station during the second phase of general election, on January 11, 2026, in Yangon, Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP Voters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday (January 11, 2026) to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout ‌in the initial…

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Myanmar pro-military party claims huge lead in junta-run poll

December 29, 2025 admin

Members of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) remove a campaign poster during the last day of the first phase of an election campaign in Yangon, Myanmar, on December 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the elections, a senior party…

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Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war

December 28, 2025 admin

Voting began Sunday (December 28, 2025) in Myanmar’s heavily restricted polls, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed, while her hugely popular party has been dissolved and was not…

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Myanmar citizens head to early polls in Bangkok

December 6, 2025 admin

Myanmar nationals living in Thailand enter the Myanmar Embassy for early voting ahead of the Myanmar general election, in Bangkok on December 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP A few dozen early voters in Myanmar’s widely criticised elections cast their ballots at the country’s embassy in Bangkok on Saturday as polls opened for citizens abroad….

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Myanmar election to begin December 28: junta

August 18, 2025 admin

An official shows how to use a voting machine for future elections in Yangon on September 5, 2023. File | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta said Monday (August 18, 2025) that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control and…

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