YANGON: Myanmar's junta on Wednesday (Jul 31) extended the state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh polls it has promised to hold as it battles opposition to its coup.
Myanmar junta military soldiers parade during a ceremony to mark the country's Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on Mar 27, 2024.
Three years and a half years later, the junta is struggling to crush widespread armed opposition and recently suffered a series of stunning losses to an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups.The junta had been unable to hold fresh polls as planned following an initial two-year state of emergency"due to the terrorist acts" by its opponents, broadcaster MRTV reported.
The extension was also needed to"carry out the population census and in order to continue the implementation of the work to be done", MRTV said. In recent months it has suffered a string of battlefield defeats to an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups in the north and west of the country.
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