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Journals Distribution on Domestic Airlines Halted

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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Burmese authorities have banned all Rangoon journals from being distributed by air to isolated regions of the country after anti-regime leaflets were found inside some journals, a source at the Ministry of Transport said on Monday.
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Mon Cease-fire Group Urges Election Boycott

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 LAWI WENG
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The Mon cease-fire group, the New Mon State Party (NMSP), released a statement on Oct. 18 requesting people in Burma including ethnic Mon to abstain from voting on Nov. 7.
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Rohingya Party Prevented from Campaigning

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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Tensions are high in Arakan State as the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) seeks to marginalize the ethnic Rohingya party, the National Democratic Party for Development (NDPD), which is competing in the Nov. 7 election in several constituencies with high Muslim populations in the state.

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Junta Envoy Says Burma Has No Political Prisoners

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 LALIT K. JHA
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WASHINGTON —  Burma's United Nations Ambassador, Thant Kyaw, told an incredulous UN committee on Wednesday that his country has no political prisoners.
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UN Envoy Asks Burma for 'Signal' Before Election

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 JOHN HEILPRIN / AP WRITER
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NEW YORK — The UN's human rights envoy to Burma appealed Thursday to its military rulers "to send a strong signal" to the world that it will hold a genuine election, by releasing democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and almost 2,100 political prisoners.
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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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