NO VOTE FOR MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR’S ‘HISTORIC’ ELECTIONS | Caravan Daily: "Among the most serious is the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a much-maligned minority.
Amid a rising wave of Buddhist nationalism, the group was excluded this time around, though it had been allowed to vote in both a 2010 poll and in 1990.
Muslim candidates have also been excluded from the poll. One is Kyaw Min, a Rohingya who contested the 1990 poll and is head of the Democracy and Human Rights Party.
Of its 18 candidates, 15 were denied the right to contest a seat in November on citizenship grounds.
“It’s killing the voice of the minority, particularly the Rohingya and other Muslims, and is totally excluding them from the political process,” Wai Wai Nu, a Rohingya rights activist and Min’s daughter, told Anadolu Agency.
“It’s just discrimination against those candidates based on their religion,” she added.
In response to pressure from the U.S. and other governments, the Union Election Commission reinstated 11 Muslim candidates following an appeal, the Myanmar Times reported."
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