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This photo taken on November 9, 2020 shows Sithu Maung, one of the two Muslim candidates from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, speaking to journalists during an interview at his house in Yangon. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)
Myanmar Muslim MP-elect vows to be rights champion
upporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party wave flags in front of the party's office in Mandalay on November 8, 2020, as ballots for the parliamentary elections are being counted after the polls closed. (Ye Naing Ye / AFP)
NLD says it won landslide victory in Myanmar polls
In this photo taken on August 27, 2020, chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Than Htay speaks to journalists during an interview at their headquarters in Naypyidaw. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)
As Aung San Suu Kyi denies genocide, opponents up anti-Rohingya rhetoric
Buddhist monk Wirathu talks to his followers before turning himself in at a Yangon police station on November 2, 2020. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)
Wirathu surrender is bid to ‘influence’ Myanmar election
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi casts an advance vote at a polling station in Naypyidaw on October 29, 2020. (Thet Aung / AFP)
Aung San Suu Kyi kicks off advance voting for elderly in Myanmar election
Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi wears a face shield and mask as she attends a flag-raising ceremony for the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to mark the first day of election campaigning in Naypyidaw on September 8. (Thet Aung / AFP)
Aung San Suu Kyi and old guard frustrate young Myanmar politicians
In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, Mro ethnic women with children displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda. (Richard Sargent / AFP)
Myanmar vote ban extinguishes hope for ethnic minorities
The gunmen left with candidates Min Aung, Ni Ni May Myint and Chit Chit Chaw.
Arakan Army admits NLD candidate abductions
Rakhine ethnic people attend and listen during the ANP (Arakan National Party) campaign for the November 8 general election on October 25, 2015. (Ye Aung Thu)
Election cancelled for majority of Rakhine

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