Myanmar Junta Using New Election Law to Crack Down on Dissent Ahead of Sham Elections - Fortify Rights 12/16/25, 10:40 AM impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice. Moreover, in January 2023, the junta introduced a new Political Party Registration Law aimed at preventing senior members of the NLD from contesting elections. In March 2023, the junta-controlled Union Election Commission dissolved the NLD and 39 other political parties after they refused to re-register under the new repressive rules. The NLD, the National Unity Government—a governmental body comprising of democratically elected o"cials ousted by the coup which should be recognized as Myanmar’s legitimate government—ethnic resistance groups, and civil society organizations, have all condemned the junta’s plans for sham elections. Fortify Rights has also documented the Myanmar military junta’s deadly and unlawful campaign of aerial attacks on civilians in Karenni State and along the Karenni–Shan State border. These attacks have deliberately targeted schools, churches, medical facilities, and displacement camps—clear violations of the laws of war—carried out in the lead-up to the junta’s sham elections. Furthermore, in 2022, Fortify Rights and the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School published a 193-page report documenting how the Myanmar military junta and police murdered, imprisoned, tortured, disappeared, forcibly displaced, and persecuted civilians in acts that amount to crimes against humanity. https://www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2025-12-10/ Page 10 of 16