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NUP Concedes Defeat

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The National Unity Party (NUP), the second largest party in Burma's general election on Sunday, has conceded defeat to the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), although it accuses the USDP of winning the election illegally.
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Junta Censors Election Fraud News

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RANGOON — The censorship board in military-ruled Burma, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), has said that media may not publish or air reports about nationwide vote rigging in Sunday's election, according to sources.
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SNDP, NDF Won't Recognize Kachin State Results

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“We are not a loser,” said Saw Than Myint, a Shan Nationalities Development Party (SNDP) candidate in Mogaung Township, Kachin State. “The government vote count says we lost the election, but we can show the international community that this was because of cheating and the unfair election procedures.”
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Ban Calls on Junta to Commit to New Beginning

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WASHINGTON — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the junta to turn the Burmese election into a new beginning for the country and its people.
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Favored Shan Candidates Lose in Rigged Vote

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Candidates for the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), the most popular ethnic party in Shan State which is also known as the “White Tiger Party,” were defeated by candidates from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the Burmese military regime's proxy party, with the help of rigged votes and unfairly obtained advance votes, local sources say.
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Nyan_win80"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
—Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma

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