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ONE YEAR AGO, and for the first time in his life, Min Min Kyaw voted. He was 38 years old.
Kyaw is a tourist guide in Myanmar, where, last November, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won the country’s first openly contested election since 1990. The election finally brought to a close the era of “the generals.” The military junta presided in one form or another over civil war and human rights violations, and prompted the imposition of economic sanctions by both the EU and U.S. Myanmar suffered, Kyaw says, “50 years of military rule and 14 years of chaos before that.”