1. Why is this election being called historic?
Sunday's election will be the first time since 1990 that Suu Kyi's NLD has contested elections. The party won the 1990 poll, taking 392 of 492 seats, but the army scrapped the results and continued to keep her under house arrest. That was the first election since 1960, two years before military rule.
In 2010 the NLD boycotted fresh elections, leaving the army-backed USDP to win.
If the NLD is able to take power after this weekend's polls - and all parties accept the result - it will overturn the current military-dominated regime, which is also seen to control Myanmar's large mineral wealth.