Myanmar's election reflected people's will, monitoring group says,


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YANGON (REUTERS) - Myanmar's election last year reflected the will of the people and the army was unjustified in using alleged flaws as a reason to seize power, an international monitoring group said on Monday (May17) in its final report. The Feb 1 coup cut short a decade of tentative democratic reforms and led to the arrest of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had swept the Nov 8 election. The Asian Network for Free Elections (Anfrel), one of two accredited foreign election observer missions, said voting was not as free and fair as it had been in...