https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54899170
Aung San Suu Kyi's party has won enough seats to form the next government. Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has secured enough seats in parliament to form the next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_qeB4lSUkw
United Nations - After almost 50 years of military rule, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma in Southeast Asia, is witnessing sweeping change. UN Stories, Myan

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/world/asia/myanmar-election-aung-san-suu-kyi-results.html
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, captured at least 397 parliamentary seats out of 476, according to official results released on Wednesday. That is even better

https://www.ft.com/content/418dd9da-892a-11e5-8a12-b0ce506400af
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy on Friday surged easily past the supermajority needed to trump the . military's guaranteed 25 per cent bloc in the legislature, a stunning

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/asia/myanmar-election-results-nld-intl-hnk/index.html
Sunday's election was viewed as a referendum on the fledgling democratic government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD), which won a landslide in 2015.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/asia/myanmar-elections/index.html
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy wins historic super-majority in Myanmar's parliament. NLD has dominated the results so far. Historic vote is seen as a test of the powerful

https://theconversation.com/aung-san-suu-kyi-wins-big-in-myanmars-elections-but-will-it-bring-peace-or-restore-her-reputation-abroad-149619
The NLD, therefore, needed to win two-thirds of the elected seats to achieve a governing majority. ... in every sense, be a significant backward step for democracy in Myanmar.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/myanmars-election-nld-seems-win-sizable-victory
November 9, 2020 1:27 pm (EST) On Sunday, Myanmar held its first national elections since 2015, when Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a smashing victory in the first

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3109698/myanmar-election-aung-san-suu-kyis-ruling-nld-wins
The National League for Democracy won 346 seats, more than 50 per cent of parliament; But opposition and rights groups say the poll was not free or fair, and left virtually all Rohingya Muslims

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/myanmar-history-coup-military-rule-ethnic-conflict-rohingya
Throughout its decades of independence, Myanmar has struggled with military rule, civil war, poor governance, and widespread poverty. A military coup in February 2021 dashed hopes for democratic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11685977
The President until the 2021 coup, Win Myint, was a close aide. In 2020, her NLD once again won a landslide majority, getting even more votes than in the 2015 vote. The still powerful military

https://www.nytimes.com/article/myanmar-news-protests-coup.html
Myanmar's Coup and Its Aftermath, Explained. The military seized power in February 2021. Now, pro-democracy forces are waging what they call a revolutionary war against the junta.

https://thediplomat.com/2023/06/theres-no-political-solution-to-myanmars-crisis/
The swiftest way to end the crisis in Myanmar is to provide every form of assistance possible to expedite victory for the pro-democracy resistance. Staunch pro-democracy allies such as the United

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_for_Democracy
The National League for Democracy (Burmese: အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, IPA: [ʔəmjóðá dìmòkəɹèsì ʔəpʰwḛdʑoʊʔ]; abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victory in the 2015 general

https://www.cfr.org/blog/review-tragic-nation-burma-why-and-how-democracy-failed-amitav-acharya
By retaking power and violently suppressing resistance, Myanmar's armed forces wiped out modest political gains achieved under partially civilian democracy from 2016-2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54899170
Aung San Suu Kyi's party has won enough seats to form the next government. Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has secured enough seats in parliament to form the next

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/myanmar-military-rule-to-fragile-democracy
Myanmar: Timeline of a fragile democracy. ... The NLD wins a general election by a landslide and Suu Kyi becomes leader in a specially created role of state counsellor. 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Myanmar_general_election
Background. Myanmar, previously known as Burma, has been under a dictatorship for the majority of its independent history. First, under Ne Win and his Burma Socialist Programme Party, and then under a military junta.In the early 2010s, Myanmar transitioned into a state of semi-democracy, finally culminating in the 2015 elections, where democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi became State Counsellor

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33547036
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has won a landslide victory in Myanmar, ending 50 years of military rule. The BBC explains the complexities behind the historic win.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4491626-now-is-the-time-to-help-myanmar-win-its-battle-for-democracy/
With the Myanmar resistance achieving a string of victories, now is the time for the U.S. to take greater action in three areas. First, the U.S. should enhance its dialogue with China on Myanmar

https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/asia/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-historic-win/index.html
People rally outside the National League for Democracy office after Myanmar's first free and fair election in 25 years on November 8 in Yangon. Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images Votes are counted in a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%93present)
The Myanmar civil war, [l] also called the Burmese Spring Revolution, Burmese civil war or People's Defensive War, is an ongoing civil war following Myanmar's long-running insurgencies, which escalated significantly in response to the 2021 military coup d'état and the subsequent violent crackdown on anti-coup protests.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/06/myanmar-breakneck-speed-disintegration-human-rights-says-high
Myanmar's people must have a place at the table. This means reaching out to the democracy movement and youth, involving them meaningfully in the resolution of this crisis. The new generation in Myanmar - particularly the women's leadership that has emerged - should be supported in a "visioning process" for the future of the country.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/focus/2024/06/23/myanmars-war-matters
Myanmar is not a democracy. The junta allowed elections more than a decade ago, enabling Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of an assassinated independence hero, to sit in Parliament. She later led a

https://eng.mizzima.com/2024/06/28/11214
Mizzima News Media. Mizzima, derived from the Pali for middle or moderate and chosen for its inference of an unbiased and independent media, was established in 1998 in New Delhi, India, by veterans of Myanmar's 1988 pro-democracy uprising.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55902070
In 2015, she led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to victory in Myanmar's first openly-contested election in 25 years. ... Prison support programme for women wins award.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Myanmar
Democracy was suspended in the country following a coup in 1962. The uncertainty and chaos paved the way for a Burmese nationalist government to take over. ... General Ne Win's Legacy of Burmanization in Myanmar Archived 26 May 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan. This page was last edited on 26 June 2024, at 23:06 (UTC

https://www.thestar.com/politics/84-candidates-on-a-ballot-thats-a-stunt-and-not-the-way-we-should-be/article_d8382312-3589-11ef-b794-2b2964e2fc70.html
The trouble with the most righteous democracy reformers is how they revel, wrongly, in running down what we already have, Martin Regg Cohn writes. Updated 23 hrs ago June 30, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/27/buddhism-monks-min-aung-hlaing-army-funeral/716ae200-347b-11ef-872a-1d22f44a0d95_story.html
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a senior monk who was fatally shot by soldiers in an incident that could undermine the cozy relationship Myanmar's military government has tried

https://www.cfr.org/blog/election-2024-joe-bidens-disastrous-debate
The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes. Backgrounder by