The plan for a general election is widely seen as an attempt to normalize the military’s seizure of power through the ballot box and to deliver a result that ensures the generals retain control.
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing urged other nations and international organizations, as well as his country’s own people, to support"the genuine, discipline-flourishing multiparty democratic system,” a concept the ruling military has defined as its goal since it ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.
There was no sign the pardoning of 7,012 prisoners, along with a partial commutation of the sentences of other inmates not convicted of serious crimes, included Suu Kyi. She has been held virtually incommunicado by the military since it seized power. At Insein Prison in Yangon - Myanmar’s most notorious - relatives thronged the gates and celebrated as loved ones were driven out of the compound on buses.
The first real move toward elections could occur at the end of this month, when the latest six-month extension of a state of emergency declared by the military is completed. Military units and civil servants marched in formation close to the grandiose parliament complex while fighter jets, bombers and helicopters flew overhead.
Myanmar's history even before the 2021 takeover was marked by decades of armed conflict between the central government and ethnic minorities seeking greater autonomy, mostly in border regions.
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