AFP
Myanmar’s junta has chosen a path of “total self-destruction” by disregarding the will of the people in a bid to legitimize its power grab, an official with the deposed National League for Democracy (NLD) said Tuesday, in response to an announcement annulling the country’s 2020 election results.
Late on Monday, the military-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) said it had thrown out the tally from Myanmar’s Nov. 8 poll, which was won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party, claiming that more than 11.3 million ballots representing nearly one-third of the country’s registered voters had been discounted due to fraud and other irregularities.
As the Agri-input prices have increased compared to the previous years, farmers in Myanmar worry that it will impact crop yields. "Fertilizer prices are on the rise. This year, we can't buy the fertilizers on credit unlike previous years," U Win Nyunt, a farmer in Magway Region, s .
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In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Burmese-Canadian community is calling on the federal government for more material and political support to anti-military protesters, who are meeting with escalating violence.