YANGON: Myanmar pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) claimed a sweeping victory in the first phase of the junta-run elections, official results released Monday showed. The party won 89 of 102 lower house seats, equating to nearly 87% of the contested seats, while remaining positions went largely to small ethnic minority parties. Read More: […]
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Myanmar Junta-backed party leads first election phase
Myanmar’s pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is reportedly leading in the first phase of junta-run elections, according to a party source, raising concerns about the consolidation of military power. The elections come after the armed forces seized control in a 2021 coup, promising to restore civilian rule. The election excludes Aung San Suu […]
Myanmar junta sentences Suu Kyi aide to 20 years for treason
Myanmar’s military sentenced a close aide of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 20 years in prison on Friday, his lawyer said, the first high-ranking member of her party to be jailed by a junta court. The country has been in turmoil since a February 1 coup ousted Suu Kyi’s National League for […]
Canada strips Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi became the first person to be stripped of honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday over her refusal to call out atrocities by her nation’s military against the Rohingya Muslim minority. The move was made official after Canada’s Senate voted to revoke the symbolic honor. The lower house had already approved […]
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign. Suu Kyi, a nobel laureate who leads Myanmar’s pro-democracy party, has been hammered […]