Analysis
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Myanmar junta plays Suu Kyi card, in return to old playbook
Successive regimes have had decades to fine tune their use of the iconic leader to advance their goal of winning legitimacy
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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
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What will this Sunday’s ‘elections’ mean for Myanmar?
The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion: a continuation of military rule in a different guise
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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
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Is the war in Myanmar approaching its ‘culminating point’?
Nearly five years into a conflict being fought on multiple fronts, it is still far from clear who will prevail in the end