Burma’s 2015 Elections and the 2008 Constitution

With elections scheduled in Burma on 8 November, this briefing contains detailed analysis of what is likely to happen after election day, the process of the elections, and key election statistics […]

Burma 2014 Human Rights Report

Burma’s parliamentary government is headed by President Thein Sein. In 2012 the country held largely transparent and inclusive by-elections in which the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, chaired by Aung San Suu Kyi, won 43 of 45 contested seats of a total 664 seats in the legislature. Constitutional provisions grant one-quarter of all national and one-third of all regional and state parliamentary seats to active-duty military appointees and provide that the military indefinitely assume power over all branches of the government should the president declare a national state of emergency. The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) continued to hold an overwhelming majority of the seats in the national parliament and state and regional assemblies, and active-duty military officers continued to wield authority at many levels of government. There is no civilian control of the military; police forces also report to the military through the minister of home affairs […]

Thein Sein’s First 100 Days: Words Not Matches By Actions

One hundred days after assuming the presidency in Burma, former General Thein Sein has failed to take any meaningful steps towards political, legal, and economic reforms. Thein Sein’s policies have been a continuation of the State Peace and Development Council’s programs.

This five-page briefer reveals that it was “business as usual” for the Burmese military despite President Thein Sein’s much-promoted image as a “softliner” […]

100 Days of Burma’s Parliament: Strengthening the Status Quo

The 11th of May marks one hundred days since the convening of Burma’s Parliament on 31 January. The laws governing the proceedings of the first parliamentary session in 22 years gagged MPs and restrict civilian access to the Parliament. Many MPs complained about being subjected to detention-like living conditions. The regime also barred domestic journalists and foreign correspondents from covering the session […]

Locked in, Tied up: Burma’s Disciplined Democracy

On 30 March 2011, the military regime’s long-running play ‘roadmap to democracy’ concluded almost eight years after its release. In the military stronghold of Naypyidaw, President-elect Thein Sein was sworn […]

Human Rights Violations in Burma’s 2010 Elections

Despite restrictive conditions, human rights groups, political organizations, media and ethnic groups from both inside and outside of Burma (including ND- Burma) managed to collect information on violations related to the 2010 elections. As a human rights network, ND-Burma monitored the elections primarily in terms of human rights violations. The findings of this report demonstrate the elections-related human rights violations are consistent with the ongoing violations committed by the military personnel and their proxies as they carry out military campaigns, as they secure areas for development projects, and whenever and wherever civilians dare to challenge the military’s illegitimate authority […]

Burma Issues & Concerns Vol. 6: The 2010 Generals’ Elections

The report provides an incisive analysis of Burma’s 2010 elections and documents the extent to which the SPDC orchestrated and controlled every aspect of the election process. The report analyzes the conduct of the election process using key indicators based on commonly accepted standards for election monitoring (i.e. UN, OSCE, and EU guidelines) to demonstrate that the polls were not free and fair […]

မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား – ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ

၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ မသမာမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ဖြင့္ခ် စုစည္းတင္ျပထားေသာ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ကို “မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား” အမည္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမ်ားမွ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ၊ ၃၁ ရက္ ေန႕စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။
ထို႕အျပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတခု၏ လြတ္လပ္မႈႏွင့္ တရားမွ်တမႈ ရွိမရွိကို တိုင္းတာသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာစံႏႈန္း (၁၆) ခ်က္ကို ဤအစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျပီး နအဖစစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ၎စံႏႈန္းမ်ားအနက္ တခ်က္ႏွင့္မွ် မကိုက္ညီေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ရလဒ္ျဖစ္သည့္ ယေန႕ေခၚယူေနေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားမွာလည္း တိုင္းျပည္၏ လက္ရွိအၾကပ္အတည္းမ်ားကို ေျဖရွင္းေပးႏိုင္မည့္ အေျခအေန လံုးဝကင္းမဲ့ေနေၾကာင္းကို အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္ […]

Burma’s 2010 Elections: A Comprehensive Report

A report released by the Burma Fund UN Office for the opening of Burma’s first Parliament, documents the widespread political repression and human rights abuses marring the electoral process in the country’s first elections in more than 20 years. It shows that none of the fundamental requirements for free and fair elections exist in Burma, and instead of heralding in positive change, the elections brought about a deepening of Burma’s human rights crisis […]

Burma’s 2010 Elections: Devastating Fraud

Forum for Democracy in Burma has collected and documented election related violations, and explains in this report with 12 chapters to expose that the 2010 election were the election in which people of Burma were intimidated, threatened and […]