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Tatmadaw soldiers guard the Goktwin Bridge on the Mandalay-Muse highway in northern Shan State on August 20, 2019. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.

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