Myanmar holds first election in 5 years

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Myanmar will hold its first general election in 5 years as criticism of the military rule mounts
Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 a...

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What’s happening in Myanmar’s civil war as military stages elections?
Myanmar holds first election in 5 years amid civil war, boycott calls
War-torn Myanmar voting in widely criticised 'sham' election
Myanmar is voting in an election widely dismissed as a sham, with major political parties dissolved, many of their leaders jailed and as much as half the country not expected to vote because of an ong...

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Myanmar heads to the polls for first election since military seized power
'We will vote but not with our hearts': Inside the election staged by Myanmar's military rulers
Conflict and fear sap campaign energy ahead of Myanmar election
Although the junta insists the election has popular backing, the vote has been widely criticised by the United Nations, Western governments and human rights groups as an attempt by the military to ent...

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Myanmar's military junta holds controversial election
Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages
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Myanmar election will escalate war, says Karen National Union, key ethnic armed group

As Myanmar’s military Junta begins its controversial phased general elections on Sunday, the Karen National Union (KNU), the oldest ethnic armed group, has dismissed the polls as a sham designed to manufacture a veneer of legitimacy.
Yahoo

Ethnic armed group claims capture of a strategic Myanmar town and control of border with Bangladesh

FILE - Myanmar border guards stand to provide security near the fence at a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, on June 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File) BANGKOK (AP ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Myanmar army faces a new challenge as an armed ethnic group opens a new front in a western state

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Myanmar’s military government faced a fresh challenge Monday when one of the armed ethnic groups in an alliance that recently gained strategic territory in the country’s northeast launched attacks in the western state of Rakhine.
CNN

Civilians caught in the crossfire as fighting escalates between Myanmar military and armed group

Renewed hostilities between the Myanmar military and ethnic minority armed group the Arakan Army (AA) have spread to various townships in western Myanmar, including Pauktaw, where civilians have been caught in the crossfire as fighting escalates.

Myanmar military claims armed opposition groups used hospital hit by airstrike as base

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged there was an airstrike on a general hospital in western Rakhine state, which a local rescuer and media reports said killed over 30 people, including patients,
San Diego Union-Tribune

Myanmar’s army chief vows counterattacks on armed groups that captured northeastern border towns

BANGKOKBANGKOK — The leader of Myanmar ’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counterattacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and ...
KTLA

An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion has surrendered to it

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border surrendered to an alliance ...
Los Angeles Times

Myanmar’s military government faces new challenge after armed group opens new front

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military government faced a fresh challenge Monday when one of the armed ethnic groups in an alliance that recently gained strategic territory in the country’s northeast launched attacks in the western state of Rakhine. The Arakan ...
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