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

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

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 […]

No One Feels Safe

December 10, 2025/in Briefing Papers, ND-Burma's Reports

“No one Feels Safe” Airstrikes Perpetrated in Burma from July to October 2025 This briefing paper by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) examines the impact of airstrikes on innocent civilians from July to October 2025 in areas documented by ND-Burma members and through desk research. Since the attempted coup in 2021, the military […]

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

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

No One Feels Safe

December 10, 2025/in Briefing Papers, ND-Burma's Reports

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

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

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/

PDF Link: https://drive.google.com/…/1-9Iks-ojKefSc5EAq…/view…

No One Feels Safe

December 10, 2025/in Briefing Papers, ND-Burma's Reports

“No one Feels Safe”

Airstrikes Perpetrated in Burma from July to October 2025

This briefing paper by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) examines the impact of airstrikes on innocent civilians from July to October 2025 in areas documented by ND-Burma members and through desk research. Since the attempted coup in 2021, the military junta has escalated its targeting of civilians through a violent and coordinated campaign of airstrikes. The increase in air attacks coincides with the Burmese Army’s growing loss of ground and territory to the armed opposition.

The military carries out airstrikes during hours when civilians are not expecting an attack, late at night and early morning, giving little warning or time to escape. The regime has fired upon communities far from the battlezones, including the assault on displaced people in shelters, displacement camps, homes, villages, schools, places of worship, and clinics. Survivors report feelings of anxiety, trauma, and suffering caused by the unpredictable and indiscriminate nature of these attacks.

Additionally, the junta has destroyed entire livelihoods, with villages being devastated from above. Grounded military forces frequently loot remaining goods and essentials. The suffering and hardship faced by civilians have worsened due to the international community’s lack of coordinated and urgent action. Despite overwhelming evidence of the junta’s war crimes, the military remains shielded and has not faced any accountability for its ongoing crimes. For decades, they have committed violence against ethnic minority groups, mainly living in Burma’s border regions. Over the last four and a half years, the circumstances on the ground have worsened, turning daily life for rural villagers into a struggle to survive.

The human rights situation in Burma is rapidly deteriorating. Since the attempted coup on 1 February 2021 until August 2025, the UN Human Rights Office announced that more than 7,000 people have been killed by the junta, of which a third are women and children.¹ Nearly 30,000 have been arrested as due process continues to be routinely denied in the military-run courts. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a member of ND-Burma, reported that from the coup until September 30, 2025, there were 3,023 civilian deaths confirmed due to airstrikes and heavy weaponry attacks.² AAPP noted that an additional 2,690 deaths were still awaiting confirmation. The victims included 1,370 women and 1,653 men, as well as 647 children under the age of 18

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Civil Society Position Paper on ASEAN’s Goal of a Myanmar-Owned and -Led SolutionDecember 18, 2024 - 12:11 pm
Recommendations to ASEAN and Its Member States (1) Move beyond the 5PC to achieve a Myanmar people-led and people-centered solution to the crisis in Myanmar. ASEAN’s “Myanmar-owned and -led” approach must be backed by genuine political will that aligns with and supports the collective aspirations of the people of Myanmar. (2) Cease all pressure on […]
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ND-Burma formed in 2004 in order to provide a way for Burma human rights organizations to collaborate on the human rights documentation process. The 13 ND-Burma member organizations seek to collectively use the truth of what communities in Burma have endured to advocate for justice for victims. ND-Burma trains local organizations in human rights documentation; coordinates members’ input into a common database using Martus, a secure open-source software; and engages in joint-advocacy campaigns.

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