INTRO: Myanmar will hold nationwide elections beginning December 28 in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta's power.
Critics have already said the military-planned election in a country that is embroiled in a civil war will be neither free nor fair, because there is no free media and most of the leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi's dissolved National League for Democracy party have been arrested. Our East Asia Correspondent, Laura Westbrook has more.
Critics have already said the military-planned election in a country that is embroiled in a civil war will be neither free nor fair, because there is no free media and most of the leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi's dissolved National League for Democracy party have been arrested. Our East Asia Correspondent, Laura Westbrook has more.
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