Junta sham election is a calculated mechanism to repackage dictatorship & falsely project that #Myanmar is under political reform.🚨

Intl community must not be fooled by it. Instead,

✅formally reject junta’s sham election outcomes
✅support NUG & EROs

https://bit.ly/4b2gqCU

Myanmar military to tighten digital surveillance via mandatory phone IMEI registration The move will enable the regime to create a comprehensive profile that connects users to a specific device and SIM card

🚨#Myanmar junta is intensifying its digital tyranny w/ the new #CEIR mobile registration system, a major surveillance upgrade that could enable junta to track users & their locations.

Intl community must impose targeted sanctions & technology embargoes.
https://tinyurl.com/48m5ktcm

New event
📆12th March
🕑2pm CET

@fidh-official.bsky.social @chinhumanrights.bsky.social @hrw.org hold HRC61 side event "5 years after the attempted coup: Myanmar's Human rights crisis, the sham election & the path forward" w/ @khinohmar.bsky.social @hurfom.bsky.social & more
At the UN, Geneva

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...

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းတွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၀၇ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၂၆၉ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၉၆) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။

ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in #Sagaing Region, there were 269 clashes, inc. 107 junta airstrikes, which killed 96 civilians.
In only one day, the junta dropped 60 bombs on Wuntho & Wetlet tsps.

English - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

Story of survivors: Mi Mi (EN) YouTube video by Altsean Burma

📽️#Myanmar #Burma #IWD
For CRSV-survivor & refugee Mi Mi, freedom is protection from both the junta & #Thai police - protection IS #justice. #GBV.
#Listen2survivors #CRSV
#Internationalwomenday #Women #AllianceAgainstCRSVMyanmar
#WhiteFlowerCampaign

youtu.be/-MJrBM7jTd8?...

59th #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates March 18 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm On 18 March, 2026 at 4-5pm (Bangkok Time), SEA Junction in collaboration with media partners, Mizzima and The Irrawaddy, will hold the 59th#WhatsHappeninginMyanmr.This update is the aim of contributing to a greater understanding of the crisis situation there for informed action in support of the democratic movement in the country and beyond. The update aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the crisis situation in Myanmar for informed action in support of the democratic movement in the country and beyond. It is meant to be short informal dialogues with a speaker who provides an analysis of the latest events in the preceding two weeks for about 20 minutes before the moderator, SEA Junction’s Founder and Director Rosalia Sciortino, opens the floor for questions and answers. Our former speakers include Aung Zaw, Founder and Director of The Irrawaddy; Khin Ohmar, a well-known Peace and Security Advocate; Debbie Stothard, an active promoter of human rights in Burma and the ASEAN regions; May Zin Thaw, the founder of a local think tank institute Researchers’ Republic and Toe Zaw Latt, R&D consultant, Mizzima Media Group. On this November, Khin Ohmar, a well-known Peace and Security Advocate, will provide an analysis of the latest events. To participate, tune in for the monthly update planned for 18 March at 4-5pm (Bangkok Time) via Zoom ((Link: MyanmarUpdate2026) and Facebook Live on our page: SEA Junction, Mizzima-Myanmar News – English Edition, and The Irrawaddy – English Edition.

New Webinar!
📆18th March
🕓4pm Thailand Time

@debbiestot.bsky.social & @liasciortino.bsky.social are back for @seajunction.bsky.social's 59th #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Monthly Update.
On Zoom & FB live, this update is always a useful session.

Details:
seajunction.org/event/59th-w...

On #InternationalWomensDay, we honor the courage & resistance of Myanmar’s women who are shaping the revolution & future of #Myanmar. 🙌

Their struggle is not only to end military tyranny, but to dismantle patriarchy & build a future where human rights are a reality. ✊

March 11, 2026 19:00 Screening "A Rohingya Ramadan – A month inside the world’s largest refugee camp" & Discussion panel with Jidi Guo, producer-director, A Rohingya Ramadan. Abdullah Bawshore, Rohingya photographer featured in the film. Salman Khan, Humanitarian Affairs Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Other panelists (to be confirmed). Moderator: Phil Robertson, director, Asia Human Rights and Labour Advocates, FCCT board member.

New event!
📆11th March
🕖7pm Thailand Time

@fccthai.bsky.social hold screening of "A Rohingya Ramadan – A month inside the world’s largest refugee camp" & panel with Jidi Guo, Abdullah Bawshore, Salman Khan & @reaproy.bsky.social

Details:
www.fccthai.com/event/a-rohi...

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း မွန်ပြည်နယ်တွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၂ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၄၄ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၇) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။
ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in #Mon State, there were 44 clashes & attacks on civilians, including 2 junta airstrikes, which killed 7 civilians.

In Kyaikmaraw Tsp, the junta armed prison inmates to guard polling stations.

Full overview:
Eng - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း မန္တလေးတိုင်းတွင်င် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၆ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၁၃၅ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၂၂) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။
ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

#Mandalay
#whatshappeninginmyanmar

Story of survivors: Lae Mon (EN) YouTube video by Altsean Burma

📽️#Myanmar #Burma #IWD
Lae Mon, a Burmese refugee in Thailand says proper aid & asylum mechanisms are an integral part of #justice for victims of #CRSV.
#Internationalwomenday #AllianceAgainstCRSVMyanmar
#WhiteFlowerCampaign
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0u...

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း မကွေးတိုင်းတွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၇၀ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၂၆၃ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၃၇) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။
ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in #Magway Region, there were 263 clashes & attacks, inc. 70 junta airstrikes, which killed 37 civilians. In Aunglan Tsp, the junta bombed a wedding & killed 5 civilians.

Full overview here:
Eng - bit.ly/ShamPollsOverview
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်တွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၃ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၂၁ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၁) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။
ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in Karenni State, there were 21 clashes & attacks on civilians, inc. 3 junta airstrikes, which killed 1 civilian.

Full overview here:
ENG - bit.ly/ShamPollsOverview
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

Follow for daily state/region breakdowns!
#Karenni

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း ကရင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၅ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၅၈ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၃) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။

ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, 58 attacks killed 4 civilians in Karen State.
Full sham election overview here
Eng - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း ကချင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၂ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် တိုက်ပွဲ ၄၂ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၂၄) ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။

ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, 42 attacks killed 24 civilians in Kachin State.

3 days before voting in Bhamo, the junta bombed residents preparing for a funeral, killing 21.

Full overview here.
Eng - bit.ly/ShamPollsOverview
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

Follow for daily state/region breakdowns!

Page 1 logos of all supporting orgs [Joint Statement] THAILAND: Overturn sentence against women human rights defender Pimsiri ‘Mook’ Petchnamrob and other pro-democracy defenders GENEVA, Switzerland (24 February 2025) – We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn the sentencing of Thai women human rights defender Pimsiri “Mook” Petchnamrob alongside Anon Nampa, Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, and Phromsorn "Fah" Weerathamjaree. We urge Thai authorities to immediately overturn the sentences against them.We urge Thai authorities to stop using charges under Article 112 of the Criminal Code—or the lèse-majesté (royal defamation) law—to target individuals who are merely peacefully exercising their fundamental rights and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. Court decision On 20 February 2026, the Ratchada Criminal Court delivered its verdict. The court sentenced the four defendants to four years in prison, but reduced their sentence to two years and eight months due to their useful testimony, without suspension, under Section 112 of the Criminal Code. The court held that the defendants’ speeches criticizing troop transfers and the legislation transferring the King’s personal assets into personal property constituted royal

defamation. Each defendant was also fined 10,200 baht (approx. USD320) for violations under the Emergency Decree and for using a loudspeaker without permission. Following the filing of the bail application, Pimisri was granted bail along with Somyot and Phromsorn. However, for Arnon Nampa, this ruling constitutes his 11th conviction under Article 112, raising his total accumulated prison sentence across all cases to more than 31 years and 9 months. The organisations stated that the sentence is inconsistent with Thailand’s commitment to promoting and protecting human rights both domestically and internationally, particularly in its capacity as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The group further noted that the ruling comes ahead of Thailand’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, a UNHRC mechanism which asks member states to undergo a peer review regarding its human rights track record. What happened In November 2020, the defendants organized a public gathering on Phahonyothin Road and in front of the 11th Infantry Regiment in Bang Khen District without notifying authorities, with around 2,000 people in attendance. During the event, the group gave speeches that the authorities perceived to be misrepresenting the monarchy. In November 2021, Pimsiri was indicted on a total of 10 charges, including under Articles 112 (lèse-majesté), 116 (sedition), and Section 215 (participation in an unlawful assembly) of the Criminal Code. She was also charged with breaching COVID-19 restrictions. Following Pimsiri’s indictment, the court granted her temporary bail, subject to two conditions: 1) she must avoid any actions considered detrimental to the monarchy, 2) and she must obtain the court’s permission before travelling abroad. Despite submitting multiple requests between 2022 and 2024, Pimsiri was consistently denied permission to leave Thailand, preventing her from travelling abroad.

As a result, she was unable to attend a regular session of the UNHRC in Geneva, thereby disabling her from engaging in international human rights advocacy. The continued refusal to grant her permission to travel abroad constitutes a reprisal for her engagement with the United Nations. Pimsiri’s trial began in June 2025 at the Bangkok Criminal Court. In her testimony, she firmly denied advocating for monarchy reforms and making personal remarks about members of the Thai royal family. She clarified that her statements were made in the context of human rights advocacy and that she merely quoted a UN Special Rapporteur’s assessment that lèse-majesté laws are incompatible with democratic principles and international human rights standards. On 11 July 2025, UN experts expressed a serious concern over the ongoing judicial proceedings against Pimsiri, calling on the Government of Thailand to drop all charges against her and other human rights defenders who took part in pro-democracy protests. The experts also reiterated their call for Thailand to amend or repeal its lèse-majesté laws, stressing that the country must stop criminalizing individuals engaged in the legitimate and vital work of protecting civic space and human rights. Endorsed by: • ALTSEAN-Burma • ASEAN Youth Forum • ASEAN SOGIE Caucus • Asia Democracy Network • Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) • CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation • Front Line Defenders (FLD) • International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders • International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) • Milk Tea Alliance (Friends of Myanmar) • Milk Tea Alliance Calendar Team • New Bloom (Taiwan) • Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) • World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Picture of Pimsiri ‘Mook’ Petchnamrob

We of #MilkTeaAlliance Friends of Myanmar join in calling for the conviction of our friend Pimsiri ‘Mook’ Petchnamrob & other HRDs to be overturned!
We call on Thailand stop targeting individuals who are exercising their fundamental rights & freedoms of expression with lèse-majesté!

#FreeOurFriends

During #Burma's sham polls, in Chin State, there were 43 attacks which killed 5 civilians.
The junta held polling in only 2/9 tsps - less than 5% of eligible voters voted.

Full election briefer:

ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOverview
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

Follow for daily state/region breakdowns!

မြန်မာ့အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း ချင်းပြည်နယ်တွင် စစ်တပ်၏ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၈ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် လက်နက်ကိုင် တိုက်ပွဲများနှင့် ပြည်သူများအပေါ် တိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၄၃ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၅)ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့သည်။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ် နှင့် တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ် သုံးသပ်ချက်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။

သုံးသပ်ချက် အပြည့်အစုံကို ဖတ်လိုလျှင် -
အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

In Solidarity with Myanmar: Stories of Continuing Struggle for Peace and Democracy with Debbie Stothard of ALTSEAN Burma Start: Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM GMT End: Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM GMT Event Type: Virtual A virtual link will be communicated before the event. In 2021, Myanmar’s military carried out a coup d’état, overthrowing the civilian government. In the aftermath, communities across the country faced massacres, airstrikes, and deepening poverty amid a collapsing economy. Civilian leaders were detained, including Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the nation’s most prominent political figures. Five years later, the junta has moved forward with an election in which its allied parties dominate. Meanwhile, public resistance continues across the country. We seek to highlight the ongoing efforts of the Burmese people for peace and democracy.

New event!
📆26th Feb
🕓4pm Thailand time

@world-beyond-war.bsky.social (Asia) hold Webinar " In Solidarity with Myanmar: Stories of Continuing Struggle for Peace and Democracy" w/ @debbiestot.bsky.social of @altsean.bsky.social

Details & Reg:
actionnetwork.org/events/webin...

ASEAN: will you continue managing the crisis rhetorically while the junta’s violence escalates, or will you stand firmly on the side of justice and the people of #Myanmar?

Only justice can end junta’s violence. ✅

Back Timor-Leste's efforts now.🚨

Read more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4tTDk6T

မြန်မာ့အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကာလအတွင်း ပဲခူးတိုင်းတွင် စစ်တပ်၏ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၂၀ ကြိမ် အပါအဝင် လက်နက်ကိုင် တိုက်ပွဲများနှင့် ပြည်သူများအပေါ် တိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၁၅၄ ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်သူ (၂၆)ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့သည်။

နေ့စဥ် ပြည်နယ် နှင့် တိုင်းအလိုက် အသေးစိတ် သုံးသပ်ချက်များကို ထုတ်ဝေသွားမည်။

သုံးသပ်ချက် အပြည့်အစုံကို ဖတ်လိုလျှင် -
အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in Bago Region, there were 154 attacks on civilians, inc. 20 airstrikes, which killed 26 civilians.

Follow for daily state/region breakdowns!

Full briefer here
ENG- bit.ly/ShamPollsOverview
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR

During #Burma's sham polls, in Ayeyarwady Region, there were 10 attacks on civilians, including 1 airstrike, which killed 3 civilians.

Follow for daily state/region breakdowns!

See full briefer here
English - bit.ly/ShamPollsOve...
မြန်မာဘာသာ - bit.ly/shampollsBUR