Myanmar rejects accusations of killings, mass rape and arson amid a 2017 military offensive that forced at least 730,000 members of the mostly Muslim minority group into Bangladesh.

Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in its first general election since a takeover that installed a military government five years ago.

Myanmar heads to the polls for the second phase of the election on Sunday, nearly five years after the country’s military authorities seized power in a 2021 coup.

But Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which won sweeping majorities in 2015 and 2020, is banned.