Philippine foreign secretary asks: Why bother sending observers to ‘farce’ Burma elections?

The Philippines’ foreign secretary shrugged off Myanmar’s rejection of international monitors for the junta-led country’s first elections in 20 years, saying Thursday the polls were a farce anyway.[...]

May 14, 2010 | Tags: ASEAN, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Election Monitoring, Kurt Campbell, National League for Democracy, Philippines | Read more >>

Philippine solidarity activists call to junk junta’s election laws; urge Burma dictators to step-down

About a hundred solidarity activists under Free Burma Coalition – Philippines (FBC-Phils) today staged a protest action in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Makati City and denounced the Burmese junta’s election laws, which according to the group is a mere strategy that “effectively excludes democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and cripples all political opposition parties while putting the military government to greater advantage”. [...]

March 19, 2010 | Tags: Free Burma Coalition - Philippines, Philippines, Protest | Read more >>