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Recounts Favor USDP

Friday, November 12, 2010 KO HTWE
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“'Winning in the evening; losing in the morning; The lion seized all the seats!' That's what the children are singing in the street around here,” said Dr. Saw Naing, an independent candidate who ran in the general election on Sunday for a Lower House seat representing South Okkalapa Township in Rangoon.
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Winners Become Losers One Day after Election

Thursday, November 11, 2010 HEIN ZAW
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MANDALAY—"I did not vote for the 'Lion,'" the symbol of the junta's proxy political party, she whispered to her friends. Then Tin Thein looked around the poll station to see if anyone was watching her as she put her ballots in the white plastic box. She felt as if she had completed her mission.
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Suu Kyi Set to Probe Burma Vote Fraud

Thursday, November 11, 2010 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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RANGOON — Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will help investigate charges of election fraud if and when she is released from house arrest this week, a close political colleague said Wednesday.
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Junta Switches from Fatigues to Plain Clothes

Thursday, November 11, 2010 KANYA D'ALMEIDA / IPS WRITER
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UNITED NATIONS — On May 30, 2003, the Depayin Massacre in Burma left at least 70 people dead. A failed attempt to assassinate opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the attack was carried out by the pro-junta political militia, the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA).
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Unhappy Opposition Candidates Press for New Election

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 KO HTWE
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Twenty candidates of three of the parties that contested Burma's general election have launched a nationwide action calling for a new vote, on the grounds that Sunday's polling was neither free nor fair.
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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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