Myanmar bars Rohingya candidate from election

Abdul Rasheed's candidacy was rejected by the district election commission in Rakhine. - AFP

YANGON (AFP): A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar's upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory and a symptom of the "ongoing genocide" against the persecuted minority.

A 2017 military operation drove 750,000 Rohingya out of the country into sprawling refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, prompting genocide charges at the UN's top court.