At least 170 people were killed in military air strikes during Myanmar's weeks' long election period, the United Nations has said.
Credible sources had counted the civilian deaths, the UN rights office stated, as well as 408 military aerial attacks from December 2025 to late last week, when the third and final round of voting was held.
The election itself has already been widely denounced as a sham by numerous countries and human rights groups.
The Union and Solidarity Party (USDP), backed by Myanmar's military, won an overwhelming victory, according to state media - an outcome which was expected following the tightly-controlled vote.
Voting was not possible in large parts of the country, which has been engulfed in civil war sparked by a military coup that saw the democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi ousted and imprisoned in 2021.
Her party, the National League for Democracy, which won landslides in the two elections prior to the coup, was not allowed to contest the vote.
The military junta is believed to be using the vote to maintain its power through proxy political parties.
UN rights chief Volker Turk described the election as staged by the military in a statement released on Friday, pointing out that opposition candidates and some ethnic groups were excluded from standing in the election.
He added that people made decisions to vote or not to vote purely out of fear, flatly at odds with their internationally guaranteed civil and political rights.
Meanwhile, the conflict and insecurity continued unabated in large parts of the country.
James Rodehaver, head of UN Human Rights' Myanmar team, noted that figures on civilian deaths during military strikes were drawn from the campaigning period beginning in December until the final voting day in late January. He indicated that the figures are likely incomplete due to impaired communications and fear among individuals in affected locations.
