War, not politics: Troubled election deepens tension in Myanmar's Rakhine
Published Date: 11/12/2020
Source: news.yahoo.com
Yarzar Tun's whole family backed Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the landslide 2015 election that swept her to power. As fighting this year in western Rakhine state crept closer to his home, he decided he would not vote for her again. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has claimed another commanding win in a parliamentary election on Sunday, the second since the end of half a century of military rule.