Proud ink-stained fingers as Myanmar votes

World Today

There were irregularities reported. Many people who were on earlier voters lists found they were now omitted. And hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the troubled west of the country were stripped of their right to vote.
Voters showed off their ink-stained fingers as a badge of pride: A symbol of how much this day means to them after all the years of waiting and hoping.

CCTV’s Rian Maelzer reports.


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