NLD Members to Form New Party

Some leading members of Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), who disagreed with the party’s decision to boycott this year’s general election, have said they will announce the founding of a new political party in the coming days that will contest the polls […]

Ban Ki-moon Fails to Act as National League for Democracy Banned by Burma Regime

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has failed to take any serious action to prevent Burma’s largest political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), becoming a banned organisation. Under new election laws introduced by Burma’s dictatorship the NLD will officially cease to exist from midnight tonight […]

Activists Hold Little Hope for 2010 Elections in Burma

Burma is now preparing for elections at the state, regional and national level. But the country’s much-criticized election laws prompted the main opposition party to opt out, leaving many activists disheartened and disgruntled.

This is how Burmese, pro-democracy advocates living in India reacted to new election rules in Burma. The rules essentially bar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition leaders from running […]

Political Defiance Committee Monthly News Commentary – April 2010

The National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB)’s Political Defiance Committee (PDC) is compiling and commentating on monthly political news. These reports include information on the relationship between NLD and the military junta, the activities of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and domestic opposition forces, the relationship between ethnic groups and the SPDC, the junta’s domestic activities, the socio-economic situation in Burma and the international community’s actions and responses […]

A Message to the People of Burma

1. The National League for Democracy (NLD) was formed with a commitment to establish democratic system in Burma, which the people of Burma demanded unanimously during the 1988 nationwide pro-democracy uprising.

Since its inception, NLD has consistently tried to; (1) Establish a true democratic government in Burma (2) Fully achieve fundamental human rights 3) Firmly lay the foundation of democracy to prevent the re-emergence of a dictatorial regime in the future (4) Perpetuate the Union with equality among all ethnic nationalities (5) Contribute for the peace in the world by improving the lives and development of the people and stability in the country of Burma […]

Statement Regarding NLD’s Non-Participation in Burma’s National Elections

Canadian Friends of Burma would like to express its strong support for the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s decision not to take part in Burma’s elections.

We are calling on the Canadian government to likewise support the NLD’s decision and to condemn the new electoral laws set in place by the military junta earlier this year.[…]

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားအေပၚ ေထက္ခံဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾက

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမွ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ ခ်ဳပ္၏ ပါတီမွတ္ပုံမတင္ေရးဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ကို အျပည့္အဝေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာခ်က္ တခုထုတ္ျပန္ လုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲတြင္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပ အင္အားစုမ်ား ႏုိင္ငံတကာမိသားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးစုံျမန္မာျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး အေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို၏ ေရွ႕ရွိ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ တားဆီးေနမႈမွန္သမွ်ကို အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔အတူ ေဖာက္ထြက္ေက်ာ္လႊားျပီး မိမိတုိ႔၏ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား အျပည္႔အဝ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ႏိုင္သည္ အထိ လက္တဲြ ဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးၾကပါရန္ အေလးအနက္ တိုက္တြန္းပန္ၾကားခ်က္မ်ားလည္းပါဝင္ပါသည္။[…]

Statement Affirming Full Support for Decision of NLD

1. We the Karen National Union (KNU) earnestly and fully support decision of the National League for Democracy (NLD) not to register as a political party under the unjust laws and 2008 constitution of the SPDC military regime and thus to boycott the upcoming elections.

2. The decision of NLD, which is supported by an overwhelming majority of the people of Burma, is the decision of the people […]

Support for the NLD’s Decision to not Register Under Unjust Laws

Yesterday, the National League for Democracy (NLD) decided that it would not register as a political party under the junta’s unjust laws and flawed constitution. One hundred and thirteen Central Committee members from across Burma took the decision unanimously […]

Decision time in Burma for democracy’s advocates

By U Win Tin
The Washington Post

Burma’s military regime has forced our party, the National League for Democracy, to make a tough decision on whether we will continue to operate legally.

The ruling generals, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), issued a set of unjust electoral laws this month that threatened to abolish our party if we did not re-register at the election commission within 60 days. […]