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SAW YAN NAING
Friday, November 05, 2010
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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Thar Gyi
Friday, November 05, 2010
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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THE IRRAWADDY
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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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THE IRRAWADDY
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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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THE IRRAWADDY
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Despite the fact that many members of the international community, regional activists and Burmese dissidents have criticized Burma's Sunday election, its first in 20 years, China said on Thursday that it hopes the election goes well.
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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."
