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Pacts, patronage and fear: how Myanmar's junta chief holds on to power | Reuters
Source: Reuters | 12 January 2026
His name is not on the ballot, and his photographs don't appear on campaign posters. But one man looms large over the general election underway in Myanmar: junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.
The 69-year-old general has ruled the impoverished Southeast Asian nation since ousting Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in a 2021 coup. That sparked a civil war of unprecedented violence, which has displaced millions and left much of Myanmar's borderlands in rebel hands.
