US EditionCommentary: Myanmar’s Flawed Election Is Also a Test of ASEAN Credibility
The UN Special Rapporteur said Myanmar's election was manipulated with coercion and violence, with the junta's proxy party winning about 90% of contested seats, urging global rejection.
- On Thursday, UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews urged governments and bodies to reject the election he called a `sham` exposing coercion and violence, saying it was `engineered` for junta victory.
- The military staged the February 2021 coup, after which the National League for Democracy was dissolved and its candidates removed, ending serious opposition in a country of 51 million people.
- Junta officials pressured internally displaced people by threatening to restrict necessities and used violence, while the Union Solidarity and Development Party, the military's proxy, won about 90 percent of contested seats.
- International legal and diplomatic pressure is rising as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations bars Myanmar’s junta leader from summits and the International Court of Justice hears the Rohingya case on January 12.
- Two additional rounds of voting are scheduled for January 11 and January 25, and analysts warn the vote could entrench military control despite 3.6 million displaced, the UN reports.
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Myanmar voters despair over sham election and plea for return of Aung San Suu Kyi
Opposition groups and the UN have called for the international community to boycott the results of elections held by the military junta. Maung Maung, Peter Popham and James C Reynolds report
UN expert urges world leaders to reject Myanmar ‘sham’ election
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar urged the international community on Thursday to reject Myanmar’s recent election, describing it as a “sham” that exposed the “coercion, violence, and exclusion” driving the voting process. After the first round of voting, Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews said the polls failed to meet any standard of legitimacy and were “engineered” to ensure victory for the military junta. He c…
စစ်အုပ်စု အလိုကျရွေးကောက်ပွဲရလဒ်က ပုံဖော်ပေးမယ့် စစ်အုပ်စုဩဇာခံလွှတ်တော်နဲ့ စစ်အုပ်စုကြိုးကိုင်တဲ့အစိုးရ - ကေအိုင်စီ
စစ်အုပ်စု အလိုကျရွေးကောက်ပွဲရလဒ်က ပုံဖော်ပေးမယ့် စစ်အုပ်စုဩဇာခံလွှတ်တော်နဲ့ စစ်အုပ်စုကြိုးကိုင်တဲ့အစိုးရ မောင်ကျော်စွာ (၂၀၂၆ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁၀ ရက်) ‘အခြေခံဥပဒေ’ ရှိတယ်၊ ‘ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကျင်းပရေးကော်မရှင်’ ရှိတယ်၊ ‘နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီတွေ’ ရှိတယ်၊ ‘ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွေ’ ကျင်းပတယ် ဆိုတဲ့ အချက်အလက်တွေရှိတယ် ဆိုရင် “ပါတီစုံဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်”ပဲ လို့ ယေဘုယျ အားဖြင့် ပြောကြဆိုကြလိမ့်မယ်။ ဟုတ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီအချက်အလက်တွေနဲ့ ဆက်စပ်ခင်းကျင်းပြောမှလည်း “ပါတီစုံဒီမို ကရေစီစနစ်”
Myanmar is holding the second phase of parliamentary “elections” on Sunday. The country, which is ravaged by civil war, is reporting intimidation by the military junta, which has even introduced the death penalty for disrupting the vote. Five years after the coup, Myanmar is facing a deep humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by cuts in foreign aid. But experts say the “elections” will not improve the situation and the regime will use them to consoli…
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