Watershed moment for a champion of democracy
After decades of house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi's vision of displacing the junta is in reach
Yangon
THE last time Myanmar held a nationwide election, Aung San Suu Kyi languished under house arrest while her party's landslide win was simply ignored by the country's military rulers.
Twenty-five years on, the democracy champion cast her ballot on Sunday morning at a Yangon polling station - the culmination of an exhausting few weeks of campaigning that drew large, jubilant crowds hoping this will be Myanmar's fairest vote in decades.
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