"Asian leaders press Myanmar to free activist" by Associated Press / October 29, 2010
HANOI — Southeast Asia’s top diplomats confronted Myanmar by demanding that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi be freed before the country’s elections next month, while the UN chief warned yesterday that keeping thousands of political prisoners locked up could destroy the vote’s credibility....
As if any vote anywhere had any.
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Did you know, Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA?
"Little hope in Myanmar’s 1st vote since ’90" by Associated Press / November 8, 2010
YANGON, Myanmar — Voters in the secretive, military-ruled nation of Myanmar cast their first ballots in two decades yesterday, as slim hopes for democratic reform faced an electoral system engineered to ensure that most power will remain in the hands of the junta and its political proxies.
Hey, their politics are just like ours!
There was little doubt that the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party would emerge with an enormous share of the parliamentary seats, despite widespread popular opposition to 48 years of military rule.
I find it amazing how all political systems function the same.
It fielded 1,112 candidates for the 1,159 seats in the two-house national Parliament and 14 regional parliaments, while the largest antigovernment party, the National Democratic Force, contested just 164 spots.
Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a landslide victory in the last elections in 1990 but was barred from taking office, urged a boycott of the vote.
Hundreds of potential opposition candidates were either in prison or, like Suu Kyi, under house arrest.
Some analysts said that despite the election’s wealth of problems, creating a Parliament for the first time in more than two decades might provide an opening for eventual change in this deeply troubled nation, which despite its political isolation has become a crossroads for Asian trade and an important natural-gas supplier to energy-starved China and India.
So you can SEE WHY the GLOBAL PLANNERS in AmeriKa have an interest!
The military has ruled Myanmar since 1962, when it was known as Burma. Decades of human-rights abuses and mistreatment of its ethnic minorities have turned the Southeast Asian nation into a diplomatic outcast.
Being a citizen of an AmeriKa that supports Israel and has tortured and killed people over lies I feel unqualified to criticize.
I've got a glass house over here (the former president and still war criminal Bush is walking around free pitching his book for God's sake) so I'm not into chucking rocks.
The junta has squandered Myanmar’s vast natural resources through economic mismanagement and found itself allied with international pariahs such as North Korea.
Oh, did they allow Wall Street bankers to loot their economy, too?
And I didn't know they were an ally of Israel, did you?
Many residents said they wanted to cast their votes against the junta’s politicians.
“I cannot stay home and do nothing,’’ said Yi Yi, a 45-year-old computer technician in Yangon.
“I have to go out and vote against USDP. That’s how I will defy [the junta].’’
Yeah, that useless mechanism is what we do around here, too.
Related: MSM Monitor Left Feeling Blue About Massachusetts
I'm living under a junta myself, but we call it liberal democracy.
Voter turnout appeared light at many polling stations in Yangon, the country’s largest city. Some residents said they were staying home as rumors circulated that bombs would explode.
We get airplane scares here in AmerIka.
By late last night, some of the opposition politicians who took part in the elections were expressing dismay at what they called widespread cheating....
I know the feeling.
It was not clear when full results would be announced. And no matter the results, the constitution sets aside 25 percent of parliamentary seats for military appointees.
Soe Aung, deputy secretary of the Thailand-based Forum for Democracy in Burma, called on the international community to not recognize the election results “because this is a sham election. . . . The Parliament which will [be formed] after this election will be a rubber-stamp Parliament to endorse what another military council will be doing against the will of its own people.’’
Oh, yeah, that IS AmeriKa all right!!!
Such criticism was echoed internationally.
President Obama told college students in Mumbai, India, that yesterday’s elections were “anything but free and fair.’’ Obama, who is on a tour of Asia, said that “for too long the people of Burma have been denied the right to determine their own destiny.’’
Tell it to Israel over the Palestinians first, bub, then get back to me.
Or KASHMIR seeing as you were IN INDIA!!
But NOT ONE WORD from the GREAT MAN about THAT when he visited!
I guess it is OKAY to OBLITERATE MUSLIMS seeing as his MISSILES are doing it all the time in Pakistan!
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Optimists say even a handful of opposition parliamentarians could allow for limited government oversight and pave the way for eventual political change.
Translation: the CIA can get some its stoolies within the halls of power with access to state secrets and security.
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Hear that sound?
Agenda-pushing AmeriKan media ax-grinder at work:
"Myanmar refugees flee into Thailand" by New York Times / November 9, 2010
BANGKOK — Clashes between an ethnic rebel group in Myanmar and government soldiers have pushed a flood of at least 15,000 refugees across a river into Thailand, one day after Myanmar held its first election in 20 years.
The fighting continued yesterday, a reminder of a long-running civil war that has raged for decades in remote mountains and jungles of Myanmar, the former Burma, far from the politics that consume the cities.
Okay, so now you know where is the CIA base.
As partial results of Sunday’s vote appeared in the state-run media, it was clear that military-backed parties would take the majority of the seats in Parliament, as the junta had clearly intended when it set the rules for the election and the parties.
Condemnation from Western nations followed the pattern of reactions to earlier actions by the military leaders, who are expected to retain power behind the facade of a civilian government.
You know, THAT IS 21st-century AmeriKa!!
“It is unacceptable to steal elections, as the regime in Burma has done again for all the world to see,’’ President Obama said in a speech to India’s Parliament, in a second day of condemnation.
Sad, but I really tune him out now.
Yeah, it's unacceptable unless George W. Bush does it. Then he's a two-term president.
Earlier this year, his administration said it would attempt a new policy of engagement rather than isolation of the ruling generals, but it has met with little substantive response.
“Faced with such gross violations of human rights, it is the responsibility of the international community — especially leaders like the United States and India — to condemn it,’’ Obama said.
Doesn't he just make you want to puke?
India and China, both neighbors of Myanmar competing for influence and raw materials there, have undercut the policy of sanctions of the United States and European Union by continuing both trade and diplomatic support for Myanmar’s generals.
Gee, one an ally Obama sucked up to and the other a soon-to-be enemy because bankers ruined our economy, Americans.
Interesting.
Did Obama criticize the Burma-India ties, too?
Or did he ignore that like he ignored the repression and killing in Kashmir (same as the agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating papers).
Neither has criticized Sunday’s election.
Bad India! Bad China!
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"Military party sweeping Myanmar election
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- About 20,000 refugees from Myanmar headed home Tuesday after fleeing to Thailand as fighting followed a general election that is certain to keep Myanmar's military and its allies in power.
The incident underlined Myanmar's vulnerability to unrest following the country's first election in two decades on Sunday....
The country's second biggest party, the National Unity Party -- an outgrowth of the political machine of the late strongman Gen. Ne Win now associated with big business interests -- joined the chorus of critics, even though it is generally seen as closer to the junta than to the country's pro-democracy movement....
A POSSIBLE COUP COMING?
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Related: Myanmar opposition concedes election (By Seth Mydans, New York Times)
What you webbers got instead, and I don't read that shtick.
But please remember they conceded.
"Court rejects Suu Kyi appeal, lawyers say" by Associated Press / November 11, 2010
A political colleague said yesterday that Suu Kyi had planned on helping to investigate charges of election fraud should she be released....
They conceded and now they are crying?!
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As always, CIA pet Suu Kyi the key in the agenda-pushing papers.
"Vigil held for Myanmar dissident; Suu Kyi expected to be released by junta today" by Associated Press / November 13, 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi, 65, has become a symbol for a struggle to rid the Southeast Asian country of decades of military rule.
She was convicted last year of violating the terms of her previous detention by briefly sheltering an American man who swam uninvited to her lakeside home, extending a period of continuous detention that began in 2003, after her motorcade was ambushed in northern Myanmar by a government-backed mob....
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Have a GOOD BREAKFAST LAUGH, did ya?
That was the best cover story the CIA press could come up with?
Suu Kyi has shown her mettle time and again since taking up the democracy struggle in 1988.
Having spent much of her life abroad, she returned home to take care of her ailing mother just as mass demonstrations were breaking out against 25 years of military rule.
What a C(IA)OINCIDENCE!
She was quickly thrust into a leadership role, mainly because she is the daughter of martyred independence leader General Aung San.
She rode out the military’s bloody suppression of street demonstrations to help found the National League for Democracy.
You know, the CIA front.
Her principled defiance gained her fame and honor, most notably the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
That prize means nothing seeing as war criminals win it and Gandhi never did.
Charismatic, tireless, and outspoken, her popularity threatened the country’s new military rulers. In 1989, she was detained on trumped-up national security charges and put under house arrest....
Wow, it really is a CIA paper!
Related: Ex-Guantanamo detainee acquitted of most charges
Yeah, we get TRUMPED-UP "terror" cases here in AmeriKa -- and the PUBLIC is beginning to SEE THROUGH the FRAMED PORTRAITS of "Al-CIA-Duh" patsies.
Suu Kyi’s freedom has been a key demand of Western nations and groups critical of the military regime’s poor human rights record.
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See if this will satisfy them then:
"Myanmar dissident freed after 7 years in house arrest; World welcomes junta’s release of Aung San Suu Kyi" by New York Times / November 14, 2010
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was freed from house arrest yesterday, setting her on the path to a possible new confrontation with the generals who had kept her out of the public eye for 15 of the past 21 years....
So much for that!
Her release, just five days after an election that recast the government with a civilian face, suggested that the generals were confident of their position and ready to face down the devotion she still commands both in her country and abroad.
But the election, which drew accusations of fraud from almost all opposition parties, has also opened a new area of discontent that her lawyers said she planned to exploit.
The scene at the gates of her compound suggested that her popularity remained strong. When the police removed barricades from around her villa yesterday afternoon, crowds flooded into the street....
“She is a hero of mine,’’ President Obama said, “and a source of inspiration for all who work to advance basic human rights in Burma and around the world.’’
I'm embarrassed and ashamed that this man is representing us around the world.
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What was cut from the printed page:
Although the newly-elected Parliament is seen mainly as a mechanism for the military to legitimize its control, it nevertheless changes the political dynamic with new structures and new personalities.
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That's why I don't expect much change under Repuglican rule.
There will be new opposition parties, however small and weak; new political officeholders, however limited their scope for independent action; and the first generation of military leaders who have not been schooled at all in the West and who perceive the United States as their biggest strategic threat.
Aren't we everyone's except Israel's?
And you can SEE WHY there is CONCERN, 'eh?
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Also see: Globe Editorial Proof that pressure can work
Myanmar’s newly freed democracy icon calls for compromise
Freed, Suu Kyi could be on collision course with junta
Whatever, Globe.
