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Bye Bye Democracy! Hello Army-State!

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Burma's top generals are exchanging their uniforms for longyis in the clear hope that the world will be fooled into thinking that a civilian, non-military government is taking power after the general election.
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Remembering the NLD

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It was a morning in September 1988. I held a white membership card signed by Aung San Suu Kyi. I was so happy and proud. I said to myself, “Now, I've become a member of the National League for Democracy.”
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We Must Deny the Military Regime in Burma the Legitimacy it Craves

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US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the remarks on the Senate floor on May 5 regarding the bill to renew sanctions against the Burmese junta.
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After the NLD Has Gone

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What is to become of the democracy movement left unrepresented by the dissolution of the NLD after May 6?
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Unveiled: the Regime's Shiny New Car

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Introducing the USDP—a new political vehicle, powered by a hybrid engine of the SPDC and the USDA.

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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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