Aung San Suu Kyi throws down the gauntlet before elections. Burma's generals are embracing democracy this year — "discipline-flourishing democracy," as they like to put it — and some of the junta's friends are buying in to the program. "There is a new beginning after the elections," said ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Secretary General Surin Pitsawan last month, calling them "a step forward." But not Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition party that won Burma's last elections in 1990. At her bidding, Ms. Suu Kyi's party announced...
