Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/31/2025

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Dec 31, 2025 05:40 pm Election Watch: Will Anything Change? On the eve of the military-organized election, leading independent journalists from Myanmar discussed what lies ahead, and what the resistance must do to unite. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Sagaing Resistance Seizes Three Budalin Strongpoints as Junta Stages Vote Empty Polls, Streets Filled With Soldiers as Yangon Votes Under the Gun Myanmar Junta's Proxy Party Claims 80% Election 'Landslide' China Says Myanmar Junta Election Stems From Xi-Min Aung Hlaing Deal The Generals' Election Offers Fake 'Civilian Rule' for Myanmar

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/30/2025

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Dec 30, 2025 08:04 pm Sagaing Resistance Seizes Three Budalin Strongpoints as Junta Stages Vote Anti-regime groups launch offensive in town covered by second phase of rigged poll.    read on website

Dec 30, 2025 07:30 pm Empty Polls, Streets Filled With Soldiers as Yangon Votes Under the Gun After five years of brutal military rule, residents of Myanmar's largest city voted with their feet in the first phase of the junta's election on Sunday. read on website

Dec 30, 2025 07:16 pm Myanmar Junta's Proxy Party Claims 80% Election 'Landslide' With all serious opposition politicians in jail or exile, a widespread boycott, and the process heavily rigged in the junta's favor, the USDP ratchets up a widely expected win. read on website

Dec 30, 2025 05:36 pm China Says Myanmar Junta Election Stems From Xi-Min Aung Hlaing Deal Beijing's envoy Deng Xijun said the military's widely condemned poll is the product of top-level agreements, underscoring China's strategic stakes in Myanmar. read on website

MORE ARTICLES The Generals' Election Offers Fake 'Civilian Rule' for Myanmar Election Without Choice: Myanmar Junta's Vote Marks New Phase of Military Domination Myanmar Pro-Military Party Official Says 'Winning' Junta-Run Poll Deathly Quiet Hangs Over Mandalay on Election Day Myanmar Junta's Election Opens Amid Airstrikes and Sparse Turnout

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/29/2025

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Dec 29, 2025 08:15 pm The Generals' Election Offers Fake 'Civilian Rule' for Myanmar We've seen this game before: The 'election' that began Sunday is designed to entrench military power, not transfer it. read on website

Dec 29, 2025 07:29 pm Election Without Choice: Myanmar Junta's Vote Marks New Phase of Military Domination 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. read on website

Dec 29, 2025 05:08 pm Myanmar Pro-Military Party Official Says 'Winning' Junta-Run Poll A source from the military-proxy USDP said the party is on course to win, as critics and voters voiced deep distrust of the poll. read on website

Dec 29, 2025 03:15 pm Deathly Quiet Hangs Over Mandalay on Election Day Many shops were shuttered and homes locked in Mandalay city as a trickle of voters turned out amid tight security after a resistance rocket attack overnight. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Myanmar Junta's Election Opens Amid Airstrikes and Sparse Turnout Security Tightened After Resistance Blasts on Election Eve 'Unfair Election': Young Voters Shun Myanmar Junta's Poll Myanmar Junta Stages Election After Five Years of Civil War Myanmar Junta Lifts Yangon Curfew Ahead of Elections

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/28/2025

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Dec 28, 2025 08:23 pm Myanmar Junta's Election Opens Amid Airstrikes and Sparse Turnout A roundup of live updates from The Irrawaddy's coverage of the first phase of voting on Sunday, which was marked by violence, protests and low turnout. read on website

Dec 28, 2025 06:48 pm Security Tightened After Resistance Blasts on Election Eve Resistance forces in Mandalay and Karen State's Myawaddy attack regime installations with homemade rockets and bombs ahead of nationwide polls. read on website

Dec 28, 2025 05:13 pm 'Unfair Election': Young Voters Shun Myanmar Junta's Poll Turnout plunges as military pushes ahead with vote widely condemned as a sham five years after seizing power. read on website

Dec 28, 2025 01:38 pm Myanmar Junta Stages Election After Five Years of Civil War Early voter turnout is thin as polling stations open for the first phase of staggered elections that have been widely dismissed as a sham. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Myanmar Junta Lifts Yangon Curfew Ahead of Elections Who, Where, and Why: Inside the Myanmar Junta's Phase One Election Myanmar Junta Bars Independent Domestic Monitors From Sunday's Election    Myanmar Election's Third Phase to Cover Fewer Areas Than Thought Why Myanmar's Election Is Rigged

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