Aung San Suu Kyi casts vote in Myanmar's first free election for 25 years
Opposition leader and one-time political prisoner battles media scrum to reach the polling station in capital Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition politician, casts her vote during the first free and fair election for decades on Sunday. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition politician, casts her vote during the first free and fair election for decades on Sunday. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
People line up to vote in a mixed Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu neighbourhood in Mandalay on Sunday. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition leader, and millions of Burmese have cast their votes in what is being touted as the country’s first free election in 25 years.
The Nobel peace prize-winner’s car inched through battling news photographers outside a school building in Yangon, the city formerly named Rangoon, and her bodyguards parted the crowds to allow her to vote.
