Myanmar junta celebrates itself with military pageant
Naypyidaw, Myanmar (AFP) Mar 27, 2025 Myanmar's junta chief insisted Thursday that a planned election will go ahead despite the country's spiralling civil war, in a speech to thousands of soldiers and dignitaries at the annual Armed Forces Day parade. Min Aung Hlaing condemned the array of armed groups fighting his rule as "terrorist insurgents" driven by "warlordism", after a year of seismic battlefield defeats. Russian-mad

