Yangon, Myanmar  —  Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleashing a brutal civil war it has yet to win. The country’s most popular politician Aung San Suu Kyi is languishing in prison … The post Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages appeared first on Egypt Independent .