YANGON, Sept 5 (AP): Twenty years after the last elections here, when a landslide opposition victory was annulled by the military-run government, Myanmar is holding a nationwide vote Sunday that its secretive generals tout as "discipline-flourishing democracy."
Political gatherings are only allowed with a week's notice and an official review of the campaign speech. Hundreds of potential opposition candidates - including pro-democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi - are under house arrest or in prison. Many of the rules were clearly written to benefit the proxy party for the ruling junta.
But in a country battered by more than 50 years of brutal military rule and sometimes-bizarre economic mismanagement, some candidates hope that maybe - just maybe - the poll could mark the start of a new era in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
Myanmar elections tomorrow
FE Team | Published: November 06, 2010 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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