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Who Cares if the Election is 'Free and Fair'?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 AUNG ZAW
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Do Burma's rulers care if this year's election is free and fair? Of course not. Why should they?

It's not as if holding a sham election will make them the black sheep of the regional family. The political systems of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are not even remotely
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Anti-Election Video Popular in Shan State

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 SAW YAN NAING
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One thousand VCDs produced by Shan community leaders opposed to the Nov. 7 election have been distributed in Shan State since early September. Thousands of additional copies have also been secretly made.
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Election to Offer Little Change: UN Rapporteur

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 LALIT K. JHA
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WASHINGTON — The special UN rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma in his latest report said there is little potential for the Nov. 7 Burmese election to bring meaningful change in the country that has remained under military rule for more than 40 years.
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Election Media Ban 'Unfortunate': US

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 LALIT K. JHA
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WASHINGTON—The restrictions imposed on foreign media and outside election observers on access to  the Nov. 7 elections in Burma are “unfortunate” and a sign of continued rigidity of the country's military rulers, according to the United States and the United Nations.
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Government Bars Foreign Media and Observers From Poll

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 BA KAUNG
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The Burmese regime will not allow foreign election observers and international media  to monitor the country's first election in 20 years, the chief of Burma's Election Commission (EC) said on Monday.
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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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Will you vote or boycott the Nov. 7 election?
 

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