Pacts patronage and fear | how Myanmar’s junta chief holds on to power

BANGKOK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - His name is not on the ballot, and his photographs don’t appear on campaign posters. But one man looms large over the general election underway in Myanmar: junta chief Min Aung Hlaing. The 69-year-old general has ruled the impoverished Southeast Asian nation since ousting Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in a 2021 coup. That sparked a civil war of unprecedented violence, which has displaced millions and left much of Myanmar’s borderlands in rebel hands. Suu Kyi’s party, however, has been dissolved and other major opposition parties are not contesting the polls, which have been widely criticised as an exercise to keep the junta in power via proxies. 🔗 Leggi su Internazionale.it

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Pacts, patronage and fear: how Myanmar's junta chief holds on to power - But one man looms large over the general election underway in Myanmar: junta chief Min Aung Hlaing. reuters.com