Thursday 11th March, 2010
US won't accept legitimacy of Myanmar's elections
Myanmar News.NetThe US will not recognise the outcome of Myanmar's elections scheduled for later this year because of new laws that ban political prisoners and the country's leading democratic activist from participating, the US State Department said Wednesday.
Us Criticizes China, Burma, North Korean Rights Records
VOAChina Censors Academy Award Nominations The United States criticized China's human rights record Thursday, raising concerns about restrictions that Beijing has imposed on citizens who question its pol...
Myanmar Annuls Nld's 1990 Election Win
Daily StarNot only is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi effectively barred from upcoming elections, but she will not be allowed to vote and her opposition party's landslide win at the last polls has b...
Un Rights Envoy Seeks Myanmar War Crimes Inquiry
World BulletinUN human rights investigator for Myanmar called for an international inquiry into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the ruling junta.
State Department Criticizes Abuses In Iran, China, Afghanistan, Burma
VOA, and cited abuses around the world - including in Iran, China, Afghanistan and Burma.In the report released Thursday, the department says the Iranian government severely limited citizens' right to pe...
State Department Criticizes Abuses In Iran, China, Afghanistan, Burma
VOA, and cited abuses around the world - including in Iran, China, Afghanistan and Burma.In the report released Thursday, the department says the Iranian government severely limited citizens' right to pe...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
ExaminerAung 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 pea...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
The Seattle TimesDetained 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...
Law Barring Burmese Dissidents From Election Is A “mockery”
America.orgWashington — The Burmese election law that bars the participation of the country’s political prisoners, including National League of Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, “makes a mockery of the de...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
BreitbartYANGON, Myanmar (AP) - 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 ...
[03/11] Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
Find LawYANGON, Myanmar (AP) - 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 ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
San Diego Union-TribuneA member, left, of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party sells a portrait of the detained leader to a woman at the party's headquarters Wedne...
Myanmar Allows Suu Kyi Party To Open Offices
eTaiwan NewsA member, left, of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party sells a portrait of the detained leader to a woman at the party's headquarters in Yangon, My...
Rigging Myanmar's Election: Belt, Braces And Army Boots
The EconomistTHE junta ruling Myanmar has had 20 years to digest the lessons from the country’s most recent election. It was trounced by the National League for Democracy, even though the opposition’s ...
U.n. Rights Envoy Seeks Myanmar War Crimes Inquiry
The StarGENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar called on Thursday for an international inquiry into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the ruling...
Business As Usual In Burma | Simon Tisdall
The GuardianThe pressure group Burma Campaign UK today welcomed what it said was an unprecedented UN call for an inquiry, calling it a "major step forward" that would increase pressure on the US, British and regi...
Myanmar Election Laws Do Not Meet International Standards: Un Sg
JuristMyanmar [JURIST news archive] do not meet international standards for an inclusive political process, in particular because they do not allow pro-democracy opposition leader
<span Style="font-size: 15pt;">one Third Of Nld Offices Reopen</span>
Mizzima NewsChaing Mai (Mizzima) - Burma's military junta has allowed about one hundred of the three hundred nation wide branch offices belonging to the National League for Democracy (NLD) to reopen, NLD Central ...
Ban Concerned Over Myanmar New Electoral Laws
MENAFN(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late Wednesday warned that the new electoral laws unveiled by the Government in Myanmar this week do not meet UN expectations of what...
Law Bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi From Voting
ExaminerAung San Suu Kyi is barred from running in upcoming elections and won't even be allowed to vote, according to laws published Thursday.The junta has also formally invalidated her party's landslide win ...
Law Bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi From Voting
SifyMyanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from running in upcoming elections and won't even be allowed to vote, according to laws published Thursday.The junta has also formally invalidate...
Election Laws, Challenge To Nld: Suu Kyi
Mizzima NewsChiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Burmese junta’s electoral laws for the 2010 polls, poses a direct challenge to her party the National League for Democracy (NLD) and it is a shame, said Burma's pro-demo...
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