A UK-based Rohingya rights body has urged the international community to stop supporting Myanmar election officials for their “discriminatory” role in the country's upcoming national polls, Anadolu Agency reported.

Myanmar authorities last week disqualified at least six candidates from Rohingya-led political parties from the Nov. 8 general elections, according to a statement by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), adding that their franchise has also been denied.

Candidates from the country’s Rohingya community have been taking part in the country’s elections for decades, on a limited scale until 2010 and with three elected members of parliament until 2015.