GENEVA: Myanmar’s transition to democracy remains “fragile” with ethnic minorities still suffering widespread abuse and the military maintaining its influence in most institutions, a United Nations (UN) expert said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

“The rule of law cannot yet be said to exist in Myanmar,” Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the country, said in a statement.

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