The Myanmar military regime abruptly lifted a nighttime curfew in Yangon, the country’s largest city, nearly five years after imposing it following the 2021 coup, just one day before the general election.

War with opposition groups means large areas are excluded from poll, while recent law prohibits criticising a process regarded internationally as a sham

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.

Voters went to the polls on Sunday for initial phase of Myanmar’s first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government