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Alastair McCready

HISTORICAL FACTS: Four years after coup myanmar regime prepares for violent messy polls | History Defined

Police cover their faces to protect from the dust as they walk with census enumerators at Thae Chaung village in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, in 2014 [File: Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]

Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious – and deadly – ever conducted.

Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a failed attempt to document the country’s population between October and December last year.

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