Myanmar junta starts census amid boycott calls

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 03, 2024 12:09 am

YANGON, Myanmar — Census takers guarded by police and soldiers took to the streets of Myanmar on Wednesday for a national survey that anti-junta groups have urged people to boycott.

The ruling junta is pressing ahead with the census even though it has lost control of large areas of the Southeast Asian country to armed groups opposed to its rule.

YOU FILL UP MY CENSUS Census enumerators ask a man questions while collecting information to compile voter lists for a general election, and to analyze population and socioeconomic trends, in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on Oct. 1, 2024. AP PHOTO

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