Early voter turnout is thin as polling stations open for the first phase of staggered elections that have been widely dismissed as a sham.
As the regime presses ahead with a tightly controlled first phase of voting on Sunday, large swathes of the country remain ...
From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and ...
On Jan. 25, the junta hopes, another 63 townships will go to the polls, whether its writ runs there or not. But even that is ...
Military regime exports repression abroad as Seoul embassy targets protesters for rallying against its sham poll.
Myanmar junta lifts Yangon's curfew days before its sham elections—claiming "stability" amid ongoing civil war and repression.
From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.
Scrutiny of vote widely regarded as a fraud to entrench military rule will be confined to regime’s supporters at home and abroad.
The junta-organized election has been engineered in a myriad subtle and unsubtle ways to ensure there can only be one winner: the military regime.
The bombing of Mrauk-U Hospital exposes the regime’s impunity, the failure of international pressure and the emptiness of its ...
Scores of regime soldiers have been killed in the attempt to drive the Arakan Army from Point 666, a hilltop base that guards the approach to the regime’s cherished KaPaSa-16 arms factory.
Fears grow for the life and safety of 24-year-old Htet Myat Aung, who had a bounty on his head for leading non-violent ...