UN Rights Envoy Urges Global Rejection of Myanmar’s ‘Sham’ Election

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday urged member states to reject the junta’s planned election.

“I made as clearly as I possibly could that these elections are a sham and they are a fraud”, Tom Andrews told a press conference after presenting his report at the 80th UN General Assembly in New York.

Andrews stressed that a free and fair election could not be held with political prisoners including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi still behind bars, rival parties forcibly disbanded, and free expression and media freedom