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Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing shows his inked finger after voting at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar’s general election in Naypyidaw on December 28, 2025. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has launched a propaganda campaign to promote his bid to become president in a post-election government. The putschist general’s presidential dream is an open secret in Myanmar. [2]

Conversation with a Dictator: A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault, by Alan Clements, World Dharma Publications, 2025, 492 pp., hardback (US$37.75) Alan Clements’s Conversation with a Dictator is an eccentric project: an illustrated novel consist... [3]

YANGON—Myanmar’s top general Min Aung Hlaing was months from retirement when he made a dictatorial about-face nearly five years ago, deposing the democratic government and promoting himself to leader. [4]

Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing attended Russia’s 80th annual Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, accompanied by his wife and her favorite fellow generals’ wives. [5]

Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has confirmed his regime continues to source helicopters from Russia, despite their use in deadly airstrikes on civilian targets during four years of civil war. (confirmed by 2 sources) [6]

At this year’s Armed Forces Day commemoration, Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing did not inspect the troops from the back of a moving military vehicle, opting to do so on foot. [7]

Bad company is better than none Faced with growing diplomatic isolation since the coup, the military regime is desperate to show people both inside and outside Myanmar that it is not a pariah. On Monday, it resorted t [8]

Sources
[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-12-28 · 100% match

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, top generals and families cast ballots as Myanmar begins multi-stage polling

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing shows his inked finger after voting at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar’s general election in Naypyidaw on December 28, 2025.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2026-01-16 · 100% match

Propaganda Machine Lines Up Behind Min Aung Hlaing Presidency

Junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has launched a propaganda campaign to promote his bid to become president in a post-election government. The putschist general’s presidential dream is an open secret in Myanmar.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-07-31 · 100% match

Imaginary Conversations With Min Aung Hlaing

Conversation with a Dictator: A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault, by Alan Clements, World Dharma Publications, 2025, 492 pp., hardback (US$37.75) Alan Clements’s Conversation with a Dictator is an eccentric project: an illustrated novel consist

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-12-23 · 100% match

Min Aung Hlaing: Myanmar’s Military Ruler Overseeing Election

YANGON—Myanmar’s top general Min Aung Hlaing was months from retirement when he made a dictatorial about-face nearly five years ago, deposing the democratic government and promoting himself to leader.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-05-23 · 100% match

Dead or Alive: Min Aung Hlaing’s Final Gamble

Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing attended Russia’s 80th annual Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, accompanied by his wife and her favorite fellow generals’ wives.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-06-30 · 100% match

Russian Choppers on Myanmar Junta’s Shopping List: Min Aung Hlaing

Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has confirmed his regime continues to source helicopters from Russia, despite their use in deadly airstrikes on civilian targets during four years of civil war.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-03-28 · 100% match

Highlights of Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing’s Armed Forces Day Speech

At this year’s Armed Forces Day commemoration, Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing did not inspect the troops from the back of a moving military vehicle, opting to do so on foot.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-03-11 · 100% match

Junta Watch: Regime Finds a Friend on Global Stage; Min Aung Hlaing Goes Bananas (Again); and More

Bad company is better than none Faced with growing diplomatic isolation since the coup, the military regime is desperate to show people both inside and outside Myanmar that it is not a pariah. On Monday, it resorted t

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-02-17 · 100% match

Min Aung Hlaing’s Putsch

Was it an intelligence failure? That’s what many Burmese were asking when they heard the news that 47 Burmese soldiers had been killed in recent clashes with ethnic minority insurgents near the border with China. And many thought that it was.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-11-06 · 100% match

Min Aung Hlaing Goes to China: From Pariah to Legitimacy… For Now

There is no more strategic ambiguity. On the morning of Nov. 5, Myanmar Airways International Flight 779 landed at Kunming International Airport in China’s Yunnan Province.

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