Burma’s Ruling Junta Holds First Round of Elections Since Toppling Democratically Elected Government

Burma’s military rulers held the first round of elections Sunday since toppling a democratically elected government in 2021. Only about one-third of eligible voters cast ballots in an initial phase of the election, which will entirely exclude people in dozens of townships not under the control of Burma’s military. Ahead of the election, Tom Andrews, the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, wrote, “An election organized by a junta that continues to bomb civilians,

Published: December 29, 2025 3:04 pm

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