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Reuters – U.N. rights envoy seeks Myanmar war crimes inquiry
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi urges response to ‘unjust’ law
AFP – Myanmar junta appoints election commission
AFP – Myanmar annuls Suu Kyi’s 1990 election win
AFP – Govt. concerned over new Myanmar election laws
Reuters – U.S. calls Myanmar election laws [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar -Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she is surprised but undaunted at the military government’s new election laws that will bar her from running for office or even voting in polls to be held this year.
The Nobel peace laureate described the laws as “repressive” and “unjust” and called for a [...]
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Yangon (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government has allowed the party of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to reopen regional branch offices that have been closed since May 2003, a party spokesman said on Thursday.
“So far as we have heard, about 100 branch offices have been reopened across the country, effective Wednesday,” said Nyan [...]
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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK : For Immediate Release Thursday 11 March
UN Burma Human Rights Expert Backs UN Commission Of Inquiry Into Abuses
The Burma Campaign UK today warmly welcomed a recommendation by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, that the [...]
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Law bars Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
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Aung Sun Suu Kyi is seen in a taped message on a television screen in Manila, Philippines, August 2002. (David Greedy, Getty Images)
Aung Sun Suu Kyi is seen in a taped message on a television screen in Manila, Philippines, August 2002. (David Greedy, Getty [...]
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AP – Law bars Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
AP – UK, US criticize new Myanmar law that bars democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from elections
AFP - Aung San Suu Kyi to be barred from polls and party
AFP – US says Myanmar election law ‘disappointing, regrettable’
Reuters [...]
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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK : For Immediate Release 10 March 2010
The Burma Campaign UK today called on the United Nations Security Council to reengage on the issue of Burma, following the publication of election law that bans Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in ‘elections’ due in Burma later this [...]
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Calls for Dialogue Failing
Myanmar ponders 2013 bid
U.N. Chief Calls On Myanmar Junta To Release Suu Kyi
Western sanctions fuel rare strikes in Myanmar
Party Registration Laws Set [...]
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10Mar10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 10 March, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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Law bars Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from election
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YANGON, Myanmar -A new election law issued by Myanmar’s ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political party and thus running in upcoming elections, state-run newspapers said Wednesday.
The Political Parties Registration Law, published in official newspapers, excludes anyone convicted by a [...]
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- Anoop Singh
Anoop Singh is Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department.
WASHINGTON , DC – China has weathered the Great Recession well. The world now waits to see if [...]
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Myanmar junta unveils first of five election laws
Burmese junta unveils election plans
Burma outlines new election laws
Burma passes law for Election Commission
Ramos-Horta Launches Burma Petitioned
Burma-North Korea Ties [...]
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Bloomberg – Myanmar Elections Must Include Suu Kyi, UN’s Ban Says
AFP – Myanmar junta to hand-pick election body
AFP – Myanmar refugees ’starving to death’ in Bangladesh
AP – Myanmar provides details of first election law
St. Paul Star Tribune – Mass. human rights doctors group faults Bangladesh on [...]
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Rights groups say Rohingya Muslims have fled religious persecution
An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation.
Physicians for Human Rights said government authorities are preventing the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, from receiving adequate care.
It accuses Bangladesh of obstructing efforts to help the [...]
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09Mar10 2010 03 08 – Union Election Commission Law
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The following is the unofficial translation of the Election Commission Law by the Burmese regime dated 8 March 2010. Though the junta published the election commission law in Burmese in state-run newspapers, no English version has been published so far. Mizzima translates it.
Union Election Commission Law
(State Peace and [...]
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- Vartan Oskanian
Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 until April 2008, is the founder of the Yerevan-based Civilitas Foundation.
YEREVAN – Will Turkey’s current turmoil between [...]
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of democracy and human rights at Bard College. His latest book Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, has just been [...]