‘How can you call this an election?’ Rohingya refugees shut out as Myanmar goes to the polls

‘How can you call this an election?’ Rohingya refugees shut out as Myanmar goes to the polls

COX’S BAZAR (Bangladesh), Dec 27 — Myanmar’s military portrays its general election as a path to democracy and peace, but the vote offers neither to a million Rohingya exiles, robbed of citizenship rights and evicted from their homeland by force.“How can you call this an election when the inhabitants are gone and a war is raging?” said 51-year-old Kabir Ahmed in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong, the world’s largest refugee camp complex.Heavily restricted…