Sham Election Tracker (SET): Monitoring the illegal Myanmar junta’s sham election and related human rights violations

PRESS RELEASE

12 December 2025

On 10 December 2025 on International Human Rights Day, Sham Election Tracker Working Group (SET WG) held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand in Bangkok to launch the Sham Election Tracker (SET).

The illegal military junta in Myanmar is aggressively pushing to hold its sham election scheduled for December 2025 and January 2026 amid its ongoing campaign of terror against the people of Myanmar, including mass killings, mass displacement, aerial bombing, forced conscription, and severe restrictions on civic and political space.

SET is dedicated to document and expose the junta’s so-called election related events and human rights violations connected to this fraudulent electoral process. It will collect, verify and upload reports on related incidents and violations to inform the international community and stakeholders including international governments, legislatures, civil society and media and offer critical insights and analysis on the junta’s attempts to legitimize and reinstate the military dictatorship in Myanmar.

Inspired by Burma Election Tracker that was developed by Burma Partnership – the Asia Pacific regional advocacy and campaign network for a free and democratic Burma – to track the previous military regime’s farce election in 2010, SET will also present a real-time reporting on the data visualisation and updates on campaigns and advocacy activities as a transparent and accessible tool. The platform, in collaboration with 34 Myanmar civil society organisations,

also features a database, interactive mapping, and a secure system for submitting reports.

The launch of the SET was also joined by representatives from Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) and Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) as they shared the findings of their recently published reports on the military junta’s sham election.

Yanghee Lee of the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) explained that the junta’s sham election is central to its long-term plan, set in motion with the attempted coup, to secure absolute military dominance over the state. She also emphasised that “the only legitimate path towards peace in Myanmar is through the realisation of the common revolutionary vision for federal democracy.”

We call on the international community and governments, the UN, the ASEAN, and the European Union to:

1. Publicly denounce the junta’s illegal sham election and its result;

2. Refrain from providing any technical, logistical, or financial assistance and abstain from sending observers; and

3. Support the Myanmar people’s will and aspirations to establish federal democracy.

For more information, please contact:

The Sham Election Tracker Working Group, Signal: +60 10 521 7959, juntaelectiontracker@gmail.com

Sham Election Tracker Website : https://shamelectiontracker.com/

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