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New Beginning for the Opposition

By ZARNI Friday, April 09, 2010
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If there is to be a new beginning, it's the NLD decision to forgo the bogus legality of the party’s existence so that a mass political movement can organically re-emerge.
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A Letter from Colombo

By HTET AUNG Friday, April 09, 2010
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In Sri Lanka, suicide bombings ceased following the government's victory over the Tamil Tigers last year. But the island nation faces a new challenge in the run-up to the April 8th general parliamentary election: political violence.
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The NLD's Long March

By KHIN MAUNG SWE Tuesday, April 06, 2010
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Seeing so many Central Committee members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) assembled at their headquarters on March 29 was very encouraging.
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Defiance, Oppression to Come

By KYAW ZWA MOE Monday, April 05, 2010
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Without inclusiveness, whatever the outcome of the election, it will not be beneficial to the people of Burma.
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Did the NLD Make a Blunder?

By AUNG ZAW Monday, April 05, 2010
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Opinion is divided over whether Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy made a blunder in deciding not to contest the upcoming election.
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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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