Candidate profile: A screencap of the mVoter2020 website showing details of a candidate running in Myanmar’s general election this November. The website has since been inaccessible. — AP
A smartphone app produced for the Nov 8 election with help from international organisations appears to have been removed from circulation and may be amended after criticism over its use of a label for Rohingya Muslims that the Rohingya view as derogatory.
The mVoter2020 app, launched on Tuesday and aimed at improving voter awareness, labels at least two candidates belonging to the Rohingya ethnic group as “Bengali”, a term that implies they are immigrants from Bangladesh and is rejected by many Rohingya.
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