SAC-M & ANFREL's new paper shows how the #Myanmar junta’s staged elections were engineered to ensure a predetermined outcome to the benefit of its proxy USDP. “This was purely an exercise to create a “parliament” regardless of the will of the people." 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/wp-content/u...

"Many in the int'l community have bought the illusion that a nominally civilian gov't, regardless of its illegitimacy & brutality, might open political space & bring about change." There is little basis for such hope. Essential reading by Ye Myo Hein. #Myanmar www.seapi.org/post/what-ha...

"Any int'l powers who think this “civilian” gov't will bring about real change or stability are mistaken. This is not like Myanmar’s opening in 2010. 2026 is not 2010. Nothing has changed this time." By Ye Myo Hein #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/anal...

ICYMI: Watch SAC-M & ANFREL's report launch & panel discussion on the #Myanmar junta's illegitimate #elections & the way forward. In this discussion, 3 experts discuss the report's key findings & its recommendations to the int'l community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScR... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

SAC-M & ANFREL's new report shows how the junta's staged "elections" comprehensively failed to meet int'l standards. They were held in only 42% of #Myanmar’s territory under a restrictive legal framework that barred legitimate political competition. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/wp-content/u...

NEW: SAC-M & ANFREL's joint report on the #Myanmar junta's staged "elections" shows how the process was forged in violence & engineered to entrench military rule. The int’l community must refuse to confer legitimacy on the junta in any form it takes. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/04/sac-...

NEW: SAC-M & ANFREL's joint paper 'Old Generals, New Clothes' shows how the #Myanmar junta's staged "elections" failed to meet int'l standards. It highlights the Spring Revolution movement & its efforts to build an inclusive federal democratic Myanmar. specialadvisorycouncil.org/wp-content/u...

See you at 10am BKK! Zoom event registration: tiny.cc/2qi1101 The event will also be streamed live via Anfrel and SAC-M's Facebook & Youtube pages. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

🚨We're launching a new joint paper with #Anfrel on the #Myanmar junta’s illegitimate elections & the way forward. Join us to hear from three experts on key findings & recommendations. 🗓 10 AM (BKK) tomorrow (Friday 10 April) 🔗 Register: tiny.cc/2qi1101 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

ဧပြီလ (၁)​ ရက်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အဓိကတော်လှန်ရေးအစုအဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် အသစ်ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်သော မဟာမိတ်အဖွဲ့သည် စစ်မှန်သော ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင်စု တည်ဆောက်ရေးအတွက် အရေးကြီးသောခြေလှမ်းတစ်ခုဖြစ်ပြီး ၎င်းတို့ကို နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက ကူညီပံ့ပိုးရမည်။ tinyurl.com/yp9s7yb7

#Myanmar's new revolutionary Steering Council marks an historic step towards building a genuine federal democratic Union that reflects the will of the people. It's time the int'l community backs these efforts & rejects Min Aung Hlaing's repackaged junta. specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/04/the-...

KIO, KNU, CNF, Karenni state council, CRPH & the NUG have announced the creation of "the steering council for the emergence of a Federal Democratic Union" in Myanmar. Hopefully leads to more involvement of stakeholders in the formation of what comes next & more coordination between resistance.

Yanghee Lee spoke to #BBC ahead of Min Aung Hlaing's expected appointment as "president" of the #Myanmar junta's fake govt. She said that just because Min Aung Hlaing is swapping his military uniform for a longyi does not make this a civilian or even quasi-civilian govt. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

By appointing a coterie of loyalists to key positions, Min Aung Hlaing seeks to entrench his total control over the junta's fake “government” & its armed forces. But this will bring him no closer to what he desperately needs–legitimacy & normalisation. #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The #Myanmar junta has killed dozens of civilians in airstrikes since it convened its fake “parliament” 10 days ago. As the junta's atrocities continue, is this the "normalisation" some States are hoping for? Old generals, new clothes. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

“Min Aung Hlaing has killed tens of thousands of civilians, set the country ablaze & destabilised the region, all in a selfish bid to anoint himself president,” said Yanghee Lee of SAC-M. Read our statement: specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/03/from... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar

ဧပြီလအစောပိုင်းတွင် စစ်အုပ်စုခေါင်းဆောင် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်သားဟုစွပ်စွဲခံထားရသူ မင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ ညွှန်ကြားမှုအောက်တွင် အလုပ်လုပ်မည့် ရုပ်သေး “အစိုးရ” သစ်ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းသွားမည်ဟု သိရသည်။ နိုင်ငံတကာအစိုးရများအနေဖြင့် ၄င်းကို လုံးဝငြင်းပယ်ရမည်။ tinyurl.com/y43xz7cj

"A confected title and a costume change won’t fool the Myanmar people or the international community or erase [Min Aung Hlaing's] crimes. He will ultimately be brought to heel and to justice.” 🎙️ Yanghee Lee of @special-council.bsky.social buff.ly/BmPqroh

“A confected title & a costume change won’t fool the Myanmar people or the international community or erase his crimes. He will ultimately be brought to heel & to justice,” said @special-council.bsky.social States must reject the puppet govt & support people-led governance. ✊

'SAC-M denounced what it described as the junta’s “absurd rebrand.” “If Min Aung Hlaing thinks a rebrand will offer him a way out, he is sorely mistaken." “States must outright reject the junta’s puppet gov't & refuse to engage with it.”' #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar thediplomat.com/2026/03/myan...

The #Myanmar junta’s power grab has entered its next phase as its generals & proxies convene their illegitimate “parliament”. The staged rebrand will culminate in a new puppet “government” under Min Aung Hlaing. States must reject it outright. specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/03/from...

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE ATTEMPTED #COUP: #Myanmar’s Human #Rights #Crisis, and The Path Forward 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 CET #WhatsHappeningInMyanamar @pvamplify.bsky.social

Junta troops abduct 160 civilians from a Bago village. 4 days later, 30 of them, incl. women & children, have been killed. Only when the military is dismantled, & its generals, proxies & cronies are tried in courts will the #Myanmar people's suffering end. 📷KPSN www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/3...

This week in #Myanmar, 2 separate junta airstrikes killed at least 2 dozen civilians, including children. Misguided international attempts to rehabilitate the junta or engage with it on any basis will only greenlight further junta atrocities. #Accountability NOW. myanmar-now.org/en/news/airs...

လက်ရှိအာဆီယံဥက္ကဌ ဖိလစ်ပိုင်သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်းပြီး သမ္မတဟောင်းရော်ဒရီဂိုဒူတာတေးကို ICC ထံသို့ ဖမ်းဆီးလွှဲပြောင်းပေးခြင်းကဲ့သို့ အလားတူ မူကိုအခြေခံဆောင်ရွက်ကာ အာဆီယံကို ဦးဆောင်မှုပေးရမည်။ 🔗 tinyurl.com/mhabmuyr #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Timor-Leste's historic move to explore potential proceedings against the #Myanmar military junta for war crimes & crimes against humanity marks a turning point for #ASEAN. Now ASEAN must back Timor-Leste & crack down on the junta. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/02/timo...

📣 Five years of resistance show Myanmar people’s resolve to dismantle the Myanmar military cartel As the resistance enters its sixth year, the world must stand in solidarity with Myanmar ppl's efforts to dismantle the military cartel and build a federal democratic future. More 👉🏽 buff.ly/3wLxuZA

5 years after its failed coup attempt, #Myanmar junta atrocities are escalating. The Myanmar people continue to resist & are building the foundations of a new society amid relentless junta airstrikes & extreme deprivation. They need int’l support NOW. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/02/five...

“စစ်အုပ်စုရဲ့အတုအယောင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ အားလုံးကြိုတွက်ထားတဲ့အတိုင်း နာမည်နဲ့လိုက်အောင် အဓိပ္ပါယ်မဲ့တာတွေ အကုန်ဖြစ်ခဲ့တာပါပဲ၊ စစ်အုပ်စုနဲ့ ထိတွေ့ဆက်ဆံတာ ဒါမှမဟုတ် အသိအမှတ်ပြုမှုပေးတာ စတဲ့အပြုအမူတွေကနေတဆင့် စစ်အုပ်စုကို တရားဝင်မှုပေးတဲ့ ဘယ်နိုင်ငံ၊ ဘယ်ကုလသမဂ္ဂအေဂျင်စီ ဒါမှမဟုတ် ဘယ်ကမ္ပဏီမဆို သူတို့ကျူးလွန်တဲ့ ရာဇဝတ်မှုတွေမှာ ကြံရာပါပတ်သက်သူတွေ ဖြစ်သွားမှာပါ။” ဟု SAC-M ၏ အမှုဆောင်ဒါရိုက်တာ Ben Lee ကပြောသည်။ tinyurl.com/yc4uc3cw

"It's a fake election and the 'winner' is a fraud." SAC-M's Yanghee Lee spoke with @deutschewelle.dw.com today on the third and final phase of the #Myanmar junta's sham elections. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/u-vZ942lajA?... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #HumanRights

Tomorrow sees 3rd & final phase of the #Myanmar junta's fake elections—an absurd sham staged in a desperate bid to attract int'l legitimacy. No amount of electoral pageantry can refashion the junta as anything other than a fraudulent criminal enterprise. specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/01/as-t...

စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အတုအယောင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများသည် အရှိန်မြင့်လာနေသော ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှု လုပ်ရပ်များမှ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကို အာရုံလွဲရန်ဆောင်ရွက်သည့် ကောက်ကျစ်သော လှည့်ကွက်များသာဖြစ်ပြီး ဗုံးမိုးရွာနေချိန် သေနတ်ပြောင်းဝရှေ့တွင် ကျင်းပသော ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများဖြစ်သည်။ 🔗 tinyurl.com/yz5t25xt

ASEAN will not send observers to the #Myanmar junta's fake election & will not endorse the polls, #Malaysia's FM said today. Now #ASEAN should reject the process outright & refrain from any act that legitimises the junta or any proxy body it appoints. www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

“This charade was engineered by the junta & its backers in a desperate bid for legitimacy," said SAC-M's Ben Lee. "By refusing to vote, the #Myanmar people have in fact cast a clear vote against the junta. Phase by phase, they are exposing the junta’s lie.” 🔗 eng.mizzima.com/2026/01/14/3... #ASEAN

SAC-M’s Ben Lee told #CNA on Sunday that large-scale boycotts & very low voter turnout were the hallmark of phase 1 of the junta's sham elections. "The #Myanmar people have shown their courage, conviction & the depth of their rejection of the junta." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_m...

Phase 2 of the #Myanmar junta's absurd fake elections was again marked by abysmal voter turnout amid widespread boycotts & junta coercion. #ASEAN must now outright condemn this sham & take action against the junta for its escalating atrocities & abuses. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/01/asea...

📌၂၀၂၆ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ (၁၀) ရက်နေ့တွင် အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာဖြင့်ထုတ်ဝေခဲ့သည့်ကြေညာချက်၏ မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်ဆိုချက် နေရာအနှံ့ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆန့်ကျင်ကန့်ကွက်မှုများသည် စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးသွတ်သွင်းရန် ကြိုးပမ်းမှုကို ဆက်လက်ငြင်းပယ်ကာ တွန်းလှန်ဖီဆန်နေသည့် မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိနှင့် ပြတ်သားမှုကို ပြသနေသည်။ လူရှင်းနေသော မြို့ပြလမ်းမများနှင့် မဲပေးသူမရှိသောမဲရုံများသည် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ တရားဝင်မှုလုံးဝမဲ့နေသောအဖြစ်ကို ထပ်မံပေါ်လွင်စေလျက်ရှိသည်။ 🔗 rb.gy/ril1f1

The material hearings in the Gambia vs Myanmar case (Rohingya genocide case) start today. The testimony that will be presented will be horrific as the actions of the Military against the Rohingya were. RMCN have put together a sample of these stories. www.instagram.com/p/DTZumvgkhde 1/

'SAC-M said the election had been “engineered to ensure victory for the junta’s proxy party." Govt's must put an end to this farce now by outright rejecting this fraud & engaging with Myanmar’s legitimate pro-democracy actors,” said SAC-M's Yanghee Lee.' #Myanmar www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Undeterred by its phase 1 rejection by the #Myanmar people, the junta presses on with phase 2 of its fake elections tomorrow. The int'l community must demand an immediate end to this humiliating exercise & outright reject the junta in any form it takes. Full statement: t.co/yMqk1KGWP2 #SaveMyanmar

The #Myanmar junta’s sham elections lack all credibility, SAC-M’s Ben Lee told BBC Newsday today. They are “an effort to gaslight the international community into giving the military the political legitimization and recognition it so desperately needs." 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD1D...

I worry that some of the language around the Myanmar election is too qualifying. There are no 'fears' or 'concerns', it is absolutely, completely, no questions bullshit. This is beyond the ordinary dodgy lawmakers doing (or trying) a dodgy, it's garbage now and has been since Feb 1 2021!

"How can you honestly feel free to go out & vote when your area is being bombed?" asked Yanghee Lee about the junta's sham elections in an interview yesterday with DW News. The junta is committing "egregious crimes against civilians in #Myanmar." 🔗 youtu.be/RQtrOoyzUjs?... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The #Myanmar people embarrassed the junta yesterday, widely boycotting the "1st phase" of its sham elections. Now it's time for the #UN, #ASEAN, Myanmar’s neighbours & the int'l community to outright reject them before the empty performance continues. 🔗 t.co/IdKR8CJW7v #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The Myanmar military is staging a sham 'election' to manufacture legitimacy while it slaughters civilians with total impunity. #RejectShamElection #AntiShamElectionCampaign #JusticeForMyanmar

The junta has cobbled together a sham election to divert attention from its atrocities against civilians. #ASEAN, Myanmar's neighbours & the broader international community must take urgent measures to prevent further junta attacks on civilians. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

"မြန်မာ့ရှေ့သို့လားရာ" စာတမ်းသစ်၏ မြန်မာဘာသာပြန် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ၂၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများသည် နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အာဏာထိန်းချုပ်မှုယန္တရားများကိုရယူရန်အတွက် ဖန်တီးထားသည့် လှည့်ကွက်တစ်ခုသာဖြစ်ကြောင်း စာတမ်းတွင်ထောက်ပြထားသည်။ tinyurl.com/5xx9hpub

On the eve of its sham elections, the #Myanmar junta continues to ramp up aerial attacks & arbitrarily arrest & torture its perceived opponents. The int'l community must take urgent, concrete measures to prevent further civilian casualties. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2025/12/eve-... #SaveMyanmar

အတုအယောင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများမတိုင်မီတွင် စစ်အုပ်စုက အရှိန်မြှင့်လုပ်ဆောင်လာသောတိုက်ခိုက်မှုများမှ မြန်မာအရပ်သားပြည်သူများကို ကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်၊ အာဆီယံနှင့် အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများ အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့် အရေးပေါ်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများ ပြုလုပ်ကြရမည်ဟု SAC-M က ပြောကြားလိုက်သည်။ tinyurl.com/bde7h44p

Blunting the junta’s capacity to wage war on the people – including through sanctions & embargoes – is critical to #Myanmar’s post-military democratic future. Our new paper sets out clear actions the int'l community must take to support this future: specialadvisorycouncil.org/wp-content/u...