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| Myanmar junta to hold elections in 2010 | |
| 2008-02-10 | |
| YANGON - Myanmar’s military government said on Saturday it would hold a referendum on a new constitution in May followed by multi-party elections in 2010, a move dismissed as worthless by the opposition without the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. ‘We have achieved success in economic, social and other sectors and in restoring peace and stability,’ the junta announced on state television after sending in the army to quell Buddhist monk-led pro-democracy demonstrations in September. ‘So multi-party, democratic elections will be held in 2010,’ said the statement issued in the name of Secretary Number One Lieutenant-General Tin Aung Myint Oo, a top member of the junta.
A spokesman for the Burmese government in exile, which includes MPs elected in 1990 but who fled after the junta refused to let the election result stand, said the announcement would mean nothing unless Suu Kyi was released and took part. ‘Without the participation of Suu Kyi, the NLD and ethnic parties the people will not accept this constitution,’ said Zin Linn. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Drum roll please....and the winner is SLORC by a nose! I'll wear my a%$ as hat if there is anything remotely resembling election in the land that time forgot. I spent a year there one month. Not a happy place. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2008-02-10 15:35 |
| #1 Ballot choices 2010: 1) SLORC 2) SLORC 3) SLORC |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-02-10 08:54 |