Citizens in Myanmar have started voting in an election for the first time in the five since that country's military coup, but many are calling the contest "fake" and "not for the people."

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…