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Reuters: Military Proxies Prepare To Sweep Rare Myanmar Poll

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Tags: Burma, Myanmar, Poll

Myanmar votes for the first time in 20 years on Sunday in a scripted election where military-backed parties are assured victory, but the poll is also stirring faint hopes of change in one of the world's most isolated states.

The carefully choreographed end of direct army rule, marred by complex rules that stifled major pro-democracy forces, enters its final stage in a largely two-horse race between two powerful army-backed parties running virtually unopposed.

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