Sentence:  Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our <WSD>voice</WSD> taken away for five years," she says. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered