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BANGKOK -- The three-phase general election in military-ruled Myanmar ended on Jan. 25 just the way it began -- dogged by suspicions that it is little more than a performative exercise designed to ...

Human rights groups and some western countries have denounced the election, the first held since the 2021 coup, describing it as neither free nor fair Myanmar’s military-backed party has completed a ...