Son of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi slams elections as 'scam'

A demonstrator gestures a three-finger salute beside a placard that reads "say no, just trap - Myanmar's sham election crap" during a rally protesting against Myanmar's general election staged by the country's military government, outside the Myanmar embassy in Tokyo on December 28, 2025. Myanmar's heavily restricted polls began on December 28, with the junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. -- Photo by Philip FONG / AFP

BANGKOK (dpa): The son of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi strongly criticized the parliamentary elections staged by the military junta on Sunday, the first elections since the military coup rocked the South-East Asian country almost five years ago.

"This so-called election," staged by the junta and "backed by other dictators, is nothing more than a scam," Kim Aris said in a video posted on social media.