Myanmar, election
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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.
Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.
The military is framing the vote as a return to multiparty democracy after ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government four years ago.
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