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Myanmar bars Rohingya candidate from election

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Rights groups call for the government of Myanmar to end its mass disenfranchisement of Rohingya. FMTNews Rohingya

Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, says his candidacy was rejected.

A 2017 military operation drove 750,000 Rohingya out of the country into sprawling refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, prompting genocide charges at the UN’s top court. Another 600,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar, but most are not regarded as citizens and will have no vote, living in what Amnesty International describes as “apartheid” conditions.

But Abdul Rasheed, 58, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, told AFP on Wednesday that his candidacy was rejected by the district election commission in Rakhine state capital Sittwe a day earlier.

 

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