The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are wary

The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are wary

Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy

BANGKOK: Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s…

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Myanmar’s military portrays its general election as a path to democracy and peace, but the vote offers neither to a million Rohingya exiles, robbed of…