{"id":70004,"date":"2025-03-10T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/myanmar-juntas-promise-of-elections-denounced-as-sham-by-experts"},"modified":"2025-03-10T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:04:24","slug":"myanmar-juntas-promise-of-elections-denounced-as-sham-by-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70004","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta\u2019s promise of elections denounced as \u2018sham\u2019 by experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears military will deploy further violence in run-up to any poll, which is unlikely to be viewed as credible<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar military\u2019s promise to hold elections in December 2025 or January 2026 has been condemned as a \u201csham\u201d that risks bringing even greater violence.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military junta announced on Saturday, in comments reported in state media, that it would hold a long-promised election, specifying a timeframe for the first time since seizing power in a 2021 coup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/myanmar-juntas-promise-of-elections-denounced-as-sham-by-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears military will deploy further violence in run-up to any poll, which is unlikely to be viewed as credibleThe Myanmar military\u2019s promise to hold elections in December 2025 or January 2026 has been condemned as a \u201csham\u201d that risks bringing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1679,50,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-lukashenko","category-china","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70005,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions\/70005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}