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Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 22, covering 3-9 August:
Developments
Union Democracy Party Chairman Phyo Min Thein resigned over concerns that the upcoming elections would not be free and fair due to the oppressive SPDC election laws.
The Union Democratic Party’s newly appointed Chairman Thein Htay said that the party had not decided [...]
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AFP – Myanmar democracy party complains of intimidation
AP – Myanmar junta celebrates rare white elephant
Asia Times Online – Myanmar sends UN a clear message
Brisbane Times – Burma democracy party ‘threatened’
The Star Online – U.N. chief irked by Myanmar leaders ahead of vote
Edinburgh Evening News – Festival gets behind jailed [...]
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Chin Refugees in Malaysia (Part 2) : While they wait, they get arrested, again, and again.
By Antonio Graceffo
Chin refugees buy time in Malaysia, waiting for resettlement in a safe country.
While they wait, they get arrested, again, and again.
In Malaysia, immigration enforcement raids are often carried out by Rela, a volunteer police force, which many outside [...]
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- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. [...]
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- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
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NEW DELHI – When the Wikileaks exposé of raw United [...]
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AP – Quiet ceremonies mark Myanmar’s bloody anniversary
AP – 2 reported killed in Myanmar border town
AFP – Ethnic Shan party eyes own government in Myanmar election
Truthout – Burma: Call for War Crimes Inquiry Foils U.N. Envoy’s Trip
GMA News – DFA chief: Without the opposition, Myanmar polls a farce
Asia Times Online [...]
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
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TOKYO – Revolutions, it is often claimed, [...]
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Please find attached EBO’s 33rd and 34th Election Monitor report.
All previous Election Monitors as well as other information on this year’s elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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AFP – Myanmar dissident quits as head of democracy party
AFP – Myanmar ‘has created world’s largest tiger reserve’
AP – Myanmar warns ’subversives’ ahead of elections
AP - Vets treat elephant land mine victim in Thailand
New Straits Times – Hollow polls won’t take Myanmar far
ReliefWeb – INTERVIEW-Drought in Myanmar’s central areas [...]
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AFP/File – his general view shows one of the main streets in downtown Yangon in 2009. The head of one of Myanmar’s newly formed pro-democracy parties resigned Thursday and said he would boycott the country’s first elections in two decades because they would not be free and [...]
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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in Economics. His latest book, Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, is now [...]
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- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, a former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
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LAHORE – July [...]
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- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is [...]
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04Aug10 PDF – _353_New Generation
Ko Ko Aung
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