Burma’s sham elections
Burma’s military junta plans to hold an ‘election’ on 28 December 2025 and in January 2026. It is almost 5 years since the junta launched their failed coup on 1 February 2021, disregarding the results of the November 2020 election which the National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide, asserting electoral fraud despite no evidence of such.
Since their failed coup in February 2021, the junta has carried out a campaign of violence against the people of Burma, launched ground offensives, airstrikes and indiscriminate shelling on towns and villages in rural and ethnic areas. The military junta has committed systematic grave human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention, torture, rape and sexual violence.
The military junta does not have the legitimacy to hold elections and this ‘election’ will not be free nor fair. In preparation for this sham election, the junta has intensified its campaign of terror against the people of Burma.
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Airstrikes, indiscriminate shelling, arrests, executions, torture, and sexual violence are among the horrific crimes that Burma's military junta are perpetrating on its civilian population since the attempted coup d'état in February 2021.
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