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    • AnalysisA Yangon resident casts his ballot in elections held on January 11 (Photo: Kan Kaung / Myanmar Now)
      Thit LwinJanuary 11, 2026

      Between resistance and the ballot box: Assessing the second phase of Myanmar’s junta-controlled elections

      Unfolding amid ongoing conflict and territorial fragmentation, the second phase will deliver an outcome even less meaningful than the first

    • OpinionMyanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing shows his inked finger after voting at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election in Naypyitaw on December 28, 2025. (Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP)
      Thit LwinJanuary 5, 2026

      Few people voted in Myanmar’s junta election—and history explains why

      From independence to dictatorship, participation has risen when elections mattered—and collapsed when they were staged. The 2025 vote fits the pattern.

    • AnalysisMembers of Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) demonstrate a voting machine during the UEC's first major press conference in Naypyitaw on September 11, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
      Thit LwinKo KyawDecember 11, 2025

      The generals are holding a vote. No one is buying it.

      As the junta prepares to conjure an election, Myanmar remains a country shattered by war, mass displacement, with a military that violates its own Constitution

    In-Depth
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      Fear grips Mandalay as junta-backed militias and kidnappers prey on residents

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    • September 18, 2026

      ‘Will it be different this time, Grandson?’

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