Special to The Washington Post (Friday, May 7, 2010)
BANGKOK -- The Burmese pro-democracy party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi chose to disband Thursday rather than recognize a government edict formally nullifying the party's victory in 1990 elections.
BANGKOK -- The Burmese pro-democracy party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi chose to disband Thursday rather than recognize a government edict formally nullifying the party's victory in 1990 elections. Burma's ruling military junta passed a law in March announcing the country's first elections since that 1990 election, which was won by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. The law required all political parties to formally re-register to participate in the upcoming elections and officially voided the 1990 results.
NLD party officials, interviewed by telephone, said they could not be part of an election that denied the victory they have fought for two decades to claim. Many said participating would make them look like "puppets" of the brutal military regime... More>>
