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In Myanmar’s Election, ‘Voting Out of Fear, Not Hope’

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls.

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Weak turnout seen in Myanmar's phased election, first since 2021 coup

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War-torn Myanmar votes in widely criticised 'sham' election

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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’s controversial elections begin amid violence and low turnout

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Myanmar goes to the polls amid civil war and humanitarian crisis

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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 heads to the polls for first election since military seized power

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Myanmar’s military leader votes in controversial election

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Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleashing a brutal civil war it has yet to win.

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Myanmar’s Election Is Derided as Fake, but the Nation’s Suffering Is All Too Real

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.

Myanmar to hold first vote in 5 years

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 army takeover,