Myanmar minorities, including Rohingya, excluded from voting in election

Rights groups say poll, which Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD is expected to win, is fundamentally flawed'

Myanmar is preparing to go to the polls for the country's second general election since the end of full military rule, a vote that is expected to return Aung San Suu Kyi to power, but will exclude about 2.6 million ethnic-minority voters.

While Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy rose to victory on a wave of optimism in 2015, this year's elections are overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, an economic crisis and intense conflict in parts of the country - where the military has been accused of atrocities reminiscent of those inflicted on Rohingya in 2017.