Credibility of Burma’s elections comes into question over exclusion of Muslim minority

Thousands or Rohingya migrants were abandoned at sea earlier this year. Pic: AP.>>>

Supporters of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party attend a rally in Mandalay earlier this week. Pic: AP.

by Asian Correspondent Staff -30th October 2015

EVEN before the November 8 election comes around in Burma, also known as Myanmar, lawmakers have begun to question just how free and fair it will be with odds stacked in the government’s favour and large numbers of people unable to vote.

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