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Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages
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By Ross Adkin, Ivan Watson, Dan Hodge, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — 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 ye…
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Myanmar hold first election since 2021 military coup
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Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages
BANGKOK — 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, nor end a devastating civil war triggered by the nation’s harsh military rul…
Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an election framed by the ruling military as a return to multi-party democracy. The country's military rule began after the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
Voting begins Sunday in Myanmar's heavily restricted polls, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted
By Ross Adkin, Ivan Watson, Dan Hodge, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — 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 ye…
Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a civil war. Final results will not be known until after two more rounds of voting are completed in January.
Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a civil war. Critics argue the election is a facade to legitimize military control, which began after Aung San Suu Kyi’s government was ousted in 2021.
Civil war-torn Myanmar went to the polls on Sunday in a three-phased election. Critics say the political exercise is a ploy to keep the military's grip on power.
Citizens in Myanmar have started voting in an election for the first time in the five since that country's military coup, but many are calling the contest "fake" and "not for the people."
BANGKOK -- 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, nor end a devastating civil war triggered by the nation's harsh military ru…
