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Myanmar’s junta is staging elections amid an ongoing civil war not to restore democracy but to manufacture legitimacy. The vote is designed to entrench military rule and provide international cover for continued violence. Key takeaways: The sham elections are an attempt to legitimize military rule. International actors should side with the public’s continued rejection of military coup leaders. There is no path to liberalization or dialogue: the military leadership is fighting for survival.
Between early 2003 and January 2025, 26 boats with about 3,342 Rohingya people fleeing either from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh or from Rakhine, Myanmar, arrived in Indonesia, mainly in provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra. While most of them have continued their onward journeys to Malaysia, about 1,500 people remained in different temporary shelters in Indonesia at the time of writing.
This post is an adapted version of an article that appears in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Asia on “Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar” (Vol 54 No 5). Before the 2021 military coup, solidarity between the Bamar majority and other ethnic groups in Myanmar was scarce. Successive governments and military regimes failed to address ethnic demands for an inclusive nation leading to over 70 years of conflict.
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