The Burmese junta is preparing sham elections 20 years after last democratic elections

The organization People in Need would like to commemorate this annivesary and express its opinion towards this year’s elections which will not be democratic and will not follow the international human rights standards […]

EU/ASEAN Burma Statement Effectively Amounts to Defence of the Dictatorship

The Burma Campaign UK today condemned as ‘pathetic’ and ‘irresponsible’ a joint statement on Burma issued by the EU and ASEAN on 26thMay. The statement goes so far in misrepresenting reality that it effectively amounts to a defence of the dictatorship […]

Burmese Community and Supporters Hold “People’s Elections” in Davao City, Philippines

The Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) and the Bukluran para sa Sosyalistang Isip at Gawa (BISIG) held a demonstration at the Department of Foreign Affairs office in Davao City today. Over 30 members of the Burmese community and their supporters signed postcards […]

Filipino activists hold “PEOPLE’s ELECTION” at Burma embassy; urge Noynoy to adopt mom’s strong position against Myanmar junta

Filipino solidarity activists under the Free Burma Coalition – Philippines (FBC-Phils) today staged a “PEOPLE’s ELECTION” in front of the Burma Embassy in Makati City to denounce Burma’s 2010 military elections […]

The Myanmar Elections

Twenty years ago today, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party swept Myanmar’s elections, but the army refused to allow the results to be implemented. Later this year Myanmar will vote again in a process certain to be seriously flawed but whose results and the constitution to be brought into force will redefine the political landscape, influencing opportunities to push for long-overdue social, economic and political reforms.[…]

Senators Mark 20th Anniversary of Burmese Election, Condemn Continuing Repression

A bipartisan group of Senators — including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Judd Gregg (R-NH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Sam Brownback (R-KS) — issued the following statement today, on the twentieth anniversary of the last general election in Burma […]

ႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေျမာက္ (၉၀)ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလဒ္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ႏွင့္ ကမာၻလုံးဆိုင္ရာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအခမ္းအနားက်င္းပျခင္း

NLD(LA) Malaysia, ALD (Exile) Malaysia, ZNC(LA) Malaysia အဖြဲ႕သုံးဖြဲ႕ ပူးေပါင္း၍ မေလးရွားႏုိင္ငံ ကြာလမ္လာပူျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ တရုတ္တန္းခမ္းမ၌ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအထိမ္းအမွတ္ႏွင့္ ကမာၻလုံးဆုိင္ရာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈေန႔ အခမ္းအနားကို က်င္းပခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ အခမ္းအနားသုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ား၊ မေလးရွား NGOမ်ားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား လူ(၁၀၀) ခန္႔ တက္ေရာက္၍ ၂၇.၀၅.၂၀၁၀ ေန႔လည္(၁)နာရီမွ ညေန(၄)နာရီအထိ က်င္းပၿပီး AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL အဖြဲ႕မွလည္း ဂုဏ္ျပဳ စကားမ်ားတက္ေရာက္ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔ပါသည္။ထုိအခမ္းအနားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အမွာစကားမ်ားကို ေၾကညာစာတမ္းထုပ္ျပန္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။

Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Founding of Restoration Council of the Shan State

1. The Constitution which was written by State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in 2008 is not recognized and endorsed by Restoration Council of the Shan State (RCSS) because it does not coincide with the desires of the Shan State people. Thus the planned 2010 elections based on the 2008 constitution is also not supported and accepted by RCSS.[,,,]

Filipino solidarity activists to join Global Day of Action to Denounce Burma’s 2010 Military Elections

Rally at Myanmar Embassy Tomorrow

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 1990 elections in Burma on May 27, activists around the world including those from the Philippines will mark the day with demonstrations and other solidarity events […]

Burma: 20 years after 1990 elections, democracy still denied repressive laws mark preparation for 2010 polls

On the twentieth anniversary of Burma’s historic 1990 elections, the Burmese military government shows no signs of relaxing its stranglehold on power, Human Rights Watch said today.

Elections planned for 2010, the first in 20 years, appear designed to enshrine military rule with a civilian face, Human Rights Watch said.[…]