Fighters from Myanmar's rebel Kayan National Army stood guard Sunday on a hilltop overlooking a displaced people's camp in Pekon -- as voters went to the polls in junta-controlled parts of the constituency.

Pekon, in Shan state in Myanmar's northeast, illustrates the country's stark divisions and the limits of the junta's reach. 

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