Myanmar Goes to Already Discredited National Polls
Rights organizations charge widespread intimidation, suppression
By: Nava Thakuria
Myanmar has gone for its second successive multi-party polls amid widespread accusations that the elections would be neither free nor fair, with uncertainties in many parts of the country and the Covid-19 pandemic affecting its marginal population.
The electoral exercise, with around 37 million of the 60 million-plus population expected…