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Burma's Disenfranchised Voters

Friday, November 05, 2010 SAW YAN NAING
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Some 200 villagers from Kyarinseikyi Township in southern Karen State held a secret rally earlier this week to air their grievances about being denied the right to vote in Sunday's general election.
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Junta Set to Win Elections on Sunday

Friday, November 05, 2010 Thar Gyi
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RANGOON — Twenty years after the last elections here, when a landslide opposition victory was annulled by the military-run government, Burma is holding a nationwide vote Sunday that its secretive generals tout as "discipline-flourishing democracy."
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USDP and NUP Square Up for 132 Seats

Friday, November 05, 2010 HTET AUNG
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The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) will be challenged by only the former ruling socialist party, the National Unity Party (NUP), for 132 seats in both houses of parliament in Sunday's general election.

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PM's Opponent Injured in Suspicious Incident

Thursday, November 04, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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The lone candidate challenging Burma's Prime Minister Thein Sein, the chairman of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), for parliament in his Zabbu Thiri Township constituency in Naypyidaw was allegedly injured in a suspicious motorcycle incident on Oct. 29.
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USDP Tries to Stir Up Election Interest

Thursday, November 04, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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RANGOON—Burma's government-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is stepping up its campaigning on the eve of Nov. 7 election, adding to the billboards that already outnumber the posters of other political parties.
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Quotable

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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