Myanmar's New Cabinet: Same Old Military Rule

0:00Myanmar's parliament just greenlit a new cabinet stack with former generals and holdovers from the old military regime under Min Ang Ha-Lang. This comes after those shady elections back in December and January, and on Friday he'll get sworn in as president alongside two vice presidents and 30 ministers all approved without a single objection. It's been five years since the 2021 coup, but don't expect any real shift to civilian rule here. But of those 30 ministers, 24 are active or retired military officers or they rep the military back union solidarity and development, party, 18 even served in the previous Hunters cabinet with four more from that same crew. Some of these picks have faced heavy sanctions from foreign governments, hit for backing the military and alleged human rights abuses. Parliament also locked in the Constitutional Tribunal Chairman, Attorney General and Supreme Court judges, keeping the old guard firmly in place. Groups like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations refused to back the elections,

1:03citing excluded opposition, crushed dissent and voting, blackouts and civil war zones. This set of signals more of the same iron-fisted control, with no quick path out of the shadows for Myanmar's people. Local news, powered by AI, this is Canada News Today.