Background Paper
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi:
22 years of peaceful resistance in the face of a brutal military regime
“Whatever they do to me, that’s between them and me; I can take it. What’s more important is what they are doing to the country,” Daw Aung Suu Kyi, 1994
Election year under house arrest
On 1 February 2010 the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention again issued a judgment declaring that the ongoing detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal and in violation of both Burma’s domestic law and international law.
Under the 2010 election laws, announced on 8 March 2010, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was prohibited from taking part in the upcoming election. In a further effort to undermine the democratic opposition, political parties were ordered to expel their members in prison or under detention orders, if they wanted to contest the elections, or face dissolution. The NLD, rather than expelling their Daw Suu and the other 412 NLD members in prison did not register to contest the elections and was disbanded.
Daw Aung san suu Kyi spent the election on 7 November 2010 incarcerated, the second election she has spent without her freedom.
On 13 November Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest sentence expires and the regime has no legal grounds to extend her already unlawful sentence. In September, the regime hinted that she would be released from house arrest, around the time of the election.
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Thanks N Regards,
U Aung Myo Thein
Assistant Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
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