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  • 2021-11-12 (xsd:date)
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  • ANFREL noted, although social distancing protocols for COVID-19 did restrict how many observers could go inside.ANFREL said that the checking and application of indelible ink — a type of cleaning-resistant dye that remains on the finger for one week and secures the one person (en)
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  • November 8 marked the one-year anniversary of the 2020 Myanmar general election, the first national election since 2015, when decades of military rule effectively ended.That experience with democracy was short-lived.The National League for Democracy (NLD), chaired by Aung San Suu Kyi, secured re-election in the 2020 voting, roundly defeating the military-aligned Union and Solidarity Party, which immediately contested the results.In February 2021, the military staged a coup, arrested Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders, and harshly cracked down on pro-democracy protests. State-backed violence and popular resistance have escalated to the point of near civil war, the United Nations’ outgoing special envoy on Myanmar said in October.On November 11, the independent Irrawaddy news outlet, citing Myanmar’s government in exile, reported that 1,300 soldiers were killed and 463 injured in the previous month of fighting with civilian resistance groups.The Myanmar nonprofit Assistance Association of Political Prisoners now estimates 1,258 people have been killed by the military since the coup.The United Nations Security Council has expressed concern over the spiraling violence, while pushing for a democratic transition. Still, Myanmar’s military rulers maintain the election was rigged, and continue to cling to power.On November 10, coup leader and self-declared prime minister Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said the assessment of the election’s fairness should not just come on election day, but also prior to and after voting.The government-run Global New Light of Myanmar cites him as saying political parties had sent letters and reports documenting instances of voter fraud.Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. Min Aung Hlaing arrive for the handover ceremony at the presidential palace in Naypyidaw on March 30, 2016. (AFP)More than 11 million ballots were wrongly counted in the election across the nation in scrutinizing the voter lists. Voting fraud is the worst in the democracy (en)
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