YANGON —
The last time Myanmar held elections in 2015, an unbridled optimism rose from decades of isolation and military rule to deliver a landslide victory to a civilian party led by human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
But as people prepare to go to the polls on Nov. 8 for only the second time since a military
"It is not going to be free and fair,"
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