Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi look at official election results Monday on a giant TV screen outside National League of Democracy headquarters in Yangon. Suu Kyi told the BBC she believes her party has won a parliamentary majority after a historic general election.
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Late Monday, supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy gathered outside party headquarters in Yangon, cheering results and boosting hopes of sweeping gains to carry it to power after decades of military dominance.
People lined up Sunday to vote in a mixed Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu neighbohood in Mandalay, the former royal capital city. Voting began in Myanmar's first free nationwide election in 25 years, the Southeast Asian nation's biggest stride yet in a journey to democracy from dictatorship.
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Supporters of pro-democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi outside NLD headquarters. Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat Monday. “We lost,” Union Solidarity and Development Party acting Chairman Htay Oo told Reuters in an interview.
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Voters checked the name lists at a polling center in Yangon on Sunday.
A Suu Kyi supporter sits inside National League for Democracy headquarters.
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A man reads a newspaper in Yangon on Monday. Vote counting in Myanmar's landmark election was well underway after a massive turnout that could end decades of military control.
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Volunteers count votes at a polling station in central Yangon on Sunday. Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian nation's first free nationwide election in 25 years.
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Late Monday, two men watched from the roof of a taxi as a crowd of supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy gathered outside party headquarters in Yangon.
