Myanmar Muslims Weigh Post-election Politics

There will be no members of the Muslim faith among the representatives in Myanmar’s next parliament. The country’s largest Muslim party, the United National Congress, has conceded it will not win any of the seats it contested, and a handful of other Muslim candidates have also come up short. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy appears to be the overwhelming winner of Sunday's election, but fielded no Muslims as candidates, bowing to a Buddhist nationalist group...

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