Myanmar should hold elections in areas where voting was cancelled this month due to armed conflicts and other security threats, including in Rakhine state, which has seen a halt in fighting since general elections, rights groups and residents, RFA reported.

Leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) won a second five-year mandate on Nov. 8.

The vote was followed by an NLD outreach to ethnic-based parties and gestures toward peace talks from the country’s powerful military, which supported holding elections in areas that didn’t vote.