UN report raises concern for fairness of Myanmar election

NEW YORK

Dozens of candidates have been disqualified and some 760,000 people have been denied voting rights ahead of Myanmar's highly anticipated upcoming general election, a UN investigator said Thursday.

Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a report that the highest number of disqualified candidates are among Muslims from from where the majority of Myanmar’s 1 million Muslim Rohingya live.