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YANGON - Myanmar's military-backed constitution was approved by 92.4 percent in a widely condemned referendum held everywhere except regions hardest-hit by Cyclone Nargis, state television said Thursday.
Some 99 percent of the 22.5 million voters eligible to vote on May 10 cast their ballots, it said.
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Devastated regions struck by the cyclone, which left 66,000 dead or missing, are set to vote on May 24, even though the United Nations estimates two million people are still in desperate need of food, water and shelter.
Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party has denounced the military rulers for holding the vote while aid is only trickling to ruined villages and
emergency shelters. - AFP/ir
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