Myanmar junta chief vows continued crackdown, then elections
Myanmar’s junta chief vowed to continue the crackdown on opponents and insisted the military would hold elections, despite admitting it did not control enough territory to allow a vote.
The putsch sparked renewed fighting with ethnic rebels and birthed dozens of anti-junta “People’s Defence Forces” (PDFs), with swathes of the country now ravaged by fighting and the economy in tatters.
More than 3,100 people have been killed in the military’s crackdown on dissent since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.
