Tomorrow the people of Burma – also known as Myanmar – go to the polls. It is an exciting moment for a country that until recently has been ruled by a brutal military regime, but the election will be only a partial exercise in democracy In just four years, Burma has released most of its political prisoners, lifted strict censorship, held free and fair by-elections (which saw the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi elected to parliament in 2012) and more. Indeed, compared with some of its supposedly more developed and sophisticated regional neighbours – such as Thailand and Vietnam, where progress on democracy and human rights has actually reversed in the past few years – Burma seems to have come a long way in a short time. In line with that progress, the forthcomin