YANGON - A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar's upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory and a symptom of the"ongoing genocide" against the persecuted minority.
Myanmar has denied the allegations and justified the military operations as a means of rooting out terrorists. Three Rohingya-led parties had hoped to field at least a dozen candidates in November's vote, according to regional watchdog Fortify Rights. The commission said this was because his parents were not Myanmar citizens when he was born, Mr Rasheed said - even though he had proof his parents and grandparents were granted citizenship in 1957, four years before his birth.
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