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Five years after the latest military coup in Myanmar, the country has held elections widely dismissed as a sham.

The military is sure to hold on to power.

The nation's former de facto leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is still in detention, and her party was barred from taking part in the vote.

Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has been following the month-long elections and reports now from Shan State in eastern Myanmar.

A small truck with a very large speaker reminds residents in the lakeside town of Nyangshui that it's time to vote.

The people are joining together to build a new nation, goes the song.

And indeed, inside the town's main secondary school, voters are guided by officials to where they can cast their ballots.

in what looks like a model democratic exercise.

Except it isn't.

A climate of fear hangs over this month-long, three-stage election, organised by the military clique which seized power five years ago, though that suggestion did not please Senior Election Commissioner Kin Mong-oo.

They feel they are forced to vote.

They say they cannot say anything about the election.

But we found you can't just ask everyone.

Few dare say anything after seeing hundreds of people charged under a law criminalising any criticism of the poll.

It didn't help that everywhere we went in Shan State we were constantly followed by military, police and other officials.