Anonymous4 days ago
Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was nominated on March 30, 2026, for a parliamentary presidential vote following elections widely condemned as fraudulent, completing a five-year arc from military coup leader to nominally civilian head of state. The move, which involved handing military command to loyalist Ye Win Oo and running through a parliament where the military and its proxy party control 86% of seats, comes as the junta holds just 21% of national territory, faces an ICC arrest warrant application for crimes against humanity, and presides over a humanitarian crisis that has displaced 5.2 million people.