Myanmar’s military government says it will hold elections this year

The Prime Minister of the Military in Myanmar said the country will hold national elections in December 2025 or January 2026.

General Min Aung Hinging said that the elections will be “free and fair” – adding that 53 political parties have already presented their lists to participate.

This will be the first vote since the Military Council seized power in the 2021 coup, when he arrested the Democratic Leader, Aung Sang Kyi, and claims claims to defraud the previous year elections.

Since then, the country has been in turmoil, as a protest movement against the military council has turned into an armed rebellion throughout the country.

Critics described the announcement as a trick designed to preserve the strength of the military council through the political parties.

Human Rights Watch, a non -governmental organization, told the BBC: “The military council is fake if they believe that the elections under the current circumstances will be considered reliable remotely,” Human Rights Watch, a non -governmental organization.

“As an introduction to the elections, they need to end violence, and to arbitrarily release all these detainees, and allow all political parties to register and participate instead of dissolving the parties to the opposition.”

The Military Council has implemented a violent campaign against the opposition since he took power, Implementation of democracy activists Journalists were imprisoned.

But it is struggling to contain a large -scale rebellion that includes pro -democracy and ethnic rebels, and has limited control outside the major cities.

The United Nations, referring to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), in January that at least 6231 civilians were killed by the army, including 1144 women and 709 children, over the past four years.

In September, she warned that Myanmar was “drowning in an abyss of human suffering.”