Fraud complaints mount on eve of Myanmar election
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YANGON — Myanmar’s military regime and its political proxy faced growing accusations Saturday of threats and intimidation on the eve of the country’s controversial first election in two decades.
Ethnic minority groups added their voices to opposition complaints that the main junta-backed party was “cheating” ahead of Sunday’s poll, already criticized by many as a charade to camouflage army rule.
Two parties aligned to the military are together fielding about two-thirds of the total candidates and the weakened opposition has slim chance of success with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi locked up.
The Democratic Party (Myanmar) and National Democratic Force (NDF) accused the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Friday of illegally collecting advance ballots by coercion.
Signs of voter intimidation were also reported by the Chin Human Rights Organization, which said that in a ward in Chin State, in western Myanmar, one of the polling stations was at an army checkpoint..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101108com3.html
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