We’ve seen this game before: The ‘election’ that began Sunday is designed to entrench military power, not transfer it.
Read moreDetailsWe’ve seen this game before: The ‘election’ that began Sunday is designed to entrench military power, not transfer it.
As the generals smile for cameras, people stay home—or cast ballots under fear—as the military stages a rigged poll to entrench power in civilian clothes.
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.
With voting just days away, a resident of Myanmar’s largest city reports an eerie lack of campaign activity and overwhelming voter apathy.
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