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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
KO HTWE
The announcement on Monday by the chairman of Burma's Union Election Commission (EC) that no media or photography will be allowed inside or around polling stations on Nov. 7, the day of Burma's general election, will inevitably lead to vote-rigging, several local journalists and Burmese politicians have said.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
KYAW ZWA MOE
The fact that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy was disbanded by Burma's ruling junta wasn't unexpected news. The government's Election Commission announcement on Tuesday is just a legal phase of the annihilation that the regime began plotting years ago.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
KAY LATT
Given the blatant bias by authorities and the Union Election Commission towards the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), critics say that the result of the elections is already known generally. The USDP and the National Unity Party are the main rivals in most of the constituencies with little challenge by the National Democratic Force and and other parties.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
HTET AUNG
The real competition centers on the USDP and the NUP to contest the upcoming election for the parliament of Rangoon Division. Will Rangoon residents support either state-backed party, given their history with the regime?
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
AUNG ZAW
Unnamed official sources in Burma have recently said that Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from house arrest on Nov. 13, when her current period of detention is due to expire. But is the Burmese regime really planning to free the detained Nobel Peace Prize winner? The answer to this question very much depends on one person: Snr-Gen Than Shwe.
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Election Watch
"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."
