24 August 2025
On 1 February 2021, the military unlawfully detained President U Win Myint, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and other elected leaders, staging a coup d’état. Having been declared the Enemy of the State on 5 September 2024, the terrorist military has neither the authority nor the legitimacy to organize elections.
The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) abolished the 2008 Constitution on 30 March 2021. Therefore, all acts carried out by the terrorist military under that charter are unlawful.
The results of the 2020 general election remain valid. The sham election being forced by the junta seeks only to prolong its grip on power and grant impunity for war crimes, thereby violating democratic principles and unlawfully seizing the people’s sovereign authority.
Only a genuine, inclusive, and democratic process—driven by the will of the people—can decide Myanmar’s future. The NUG, in partnership with ethnic allies and revolutionary forces, remains committed to the Federal Democracy Charter, which mandates the drafting and adoption of a Federal Democratic Constitution through a nationwide referendum, followed by free and fair elections.
The NUG’s Counter-Terrorism Central Committee has already designated the junta and its so-called Union Election Commission as terrorist organizations. Any attempt to coerce citizens into participating in the sham election within NUG-administered areas will face lawful and decisive enforcement action.
For generations, the terrorist military has subjected the ethnic peoples and the citizens of Myanmar to various forms of oppression, persecution, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes. They are perpetrators of crimes against humanity, wanted by the international prosecutors. Since February 2021, the terrorist military has committed grave crimes against humanity, including mass killings, aerial bombardments, artillery attacks, and ethnic persecution. Beginning in August 2025, it has escalated violence to force through its fraudulent election under a new name and structure.
The people of Myanmar, both at home and abroad, have consistently rejected the terrorist military’s illegal power grab. The NUG is confident that they will continue to resist—by every means available—any attempt to impose a sham election at gunpoint.
The NUG calls upon governments, international organizations, and democratic allies to:
Reject and denounce the terrorist military’s sham election.
Recognize that supporting such an act would condone war crimes and promote impunity.
Stand firmly with the people of Myanmar in their struggle for democracy, human rights, and lasting peace.
National Unity Government of Myanmar