Watershed moment for a champion of democracy

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.