Week 35: 2010 Election Watch (2-8 November)

Developments

Widespread evidence of electoral fraud, irregularities, threats, harassment, and lack of independent monitoring characterized Election Day and the days leading up to it [...]

November 12, 2010 | Tags: All Mon Region Democracy Party, Altsean-Burma, ASEAN, Canada, China, Democratic Party (Myanmar), Election Results, EU, Japan, Media Freedom, National Democratic Force, Rakhine Nationals Progressive Party, UN Secretary General, Union Election Commission, Union Solidarity and Development Party, United States | Read more >>

Resolution of Burmese Communities in the United States

We do not Support the Burmese Military Junta and Its Cronies. We Protest and Condemn the Junta’s 2010 Election and Pre-determined Outcome

[...] While at this vital moment, the Burmese Regime is staging its sham Election upcoming on November 7, 2010. It is declared unconstitutional and undemocratic by Burmese democratic opposition party, NLD (National League for Democracy) led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi and other Burmese opposition leaders such as U Win Tin and U Tin Oo have clearly stated to boycott and condemn the Regime’s 2010 Election as its outcome is foreseeable: the military junta will remain in power [...]

October 20, 2010 | Tags: United States, US Burmese Communities | Read more >>

Week 32: 2010 Election Watch (12-18 October)

Developments

• SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that no foreign journalists or international monitors would be allowed to observe the upcoming elections.
• SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that 3,071 candidates, including 82 independent candidates, will contest the elections [...]

October 20, 2010 | Tags: Advance Voting, Altsean-Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Election Monitoring, National Democratic Force, National Democratic Party for Development, SPDC Army, UN Secretary General, Union Election Commission, Union Solidarity and Development Party, United States | Read more >>

Week 30: 2010 Election Watch (28 September – 4 October)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the Difference and Peace Party’s transcript for its TV and radio campaign message. It also censored the campaign messages of the All Mon Region Democracy Party, the Chin National Party, and the Shan Nationals Democratic Party [...]

October 6, 2010 | Tags: All Mon Region Democracy Party, Censorship, Chin National Party, Difference and Peace Party, Electioneering, Kachin Defense Army, People's New Society Party, Shan National Democratic Party, Union Election Commission, United States, US Congressman Joseph Crowley | Read more >>

U.S. Members of Congress Condemn the Burmese Regime’s Undemocratic Upcoming Elections on November 7, 2010

A bipartisan group of Members of the House of Representatives, led by Mr. Donald Manzullo (R-IL), yesterday introduced a Resolution, condemning the Burmese military regime’s undemocratic upcoming elections on November 7, 2010. The resolution is called H. Res. 1677, and co-sponsored by ten Representatives, including Mr. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ms. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the powerful House Committee on Foreign Affairs respectively. The draft Resolution denounces the regime’s election as “the one-sided, undemocratic and illegitimate actions of the State Peace and Development Council (official name of the regime) that seeks to legitimize military rule through a flawed election process” [...]

September 30, 2010 | Tags: United States, US Campaign for Burma | Read more >>

Week 29: 2010 Election Watch (21-27 September)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the transcripts for the TV and radio campaign messages of the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) [...]

September 29, 2010 | Tags: 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), Altsean-Burma, ASEAN, Democratic Party (Myanmar), Kachin State Progressive Party, Karenni National Progressive Party, Northern Shan State Progressive Party, Resistance, Union Election Commission, Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, Union Solidarity and Development Party, United States | Read more >>

Week 28: 2010 Election Watch (14-20 September)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission announced that polls would not be held in 3,314 Villages in Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Mon, and Shan States because “they are in no position to host free and fair elections.”
• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the application of 14 Kachin State Progressive Party members to run as independent candidates [...]

September 22, 2010 | Tags: Boycott, Democratic Party (Myanmar), France, Kachin State Progressive Party, National Democratic Force, National League for Democracy, Pa-O National Organization, Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, Shan State Kokang Democratic Party, UK, Union Election Commission, United States, Wa National Development Party | Read more >>

Week 26: 2010 Election Watch (31 August – 6 September)

Developments

• The Zomi National Congress and the Committee Representing the People’s Parliament decided to boycott the elections.
• SPDC authorities in Dala Township, Rangoon Division, briefly detained an NLD organizer for distributing leaflets that urged people not to vote in the elections [...]

September 8, 2010 | Tags: All National Races Unity and Development Party (Kayah State), Boycott, Chin National Party, Committee Representing the People's Parliament, National Unity Party, Rakhine Nationals Progressive Party, Union Solidarity and Development Party, United States, Voter Education, Zomi National Congress | Read more >>

US rues ‘dictators in civilian clothes’

Merely “civilianising” Burma’s current situation will do nothing to transform the country, Washington has said in an apparent rebuke to rumours of a major reshuffle at the top of the Burmese army.The retirement from the military of the country’s three top generals, Than Shwe, Maung Aye and Shwe Mann, is seen by observers as a pretext for their role in the new civilian government that has been promised after elections, slated for 7 November [...]

September 1, 2010 | Tags: United States | Read more >>

Week 23: 2010 Election Watch (10-16 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission set the election date for 7 November and also established a two-week filing period that ends on 30 August for political parties to submit their list of candidates for review and approval.
• The SPDC Election Commission designated constituencies for the National and Regional Parliaments [...]

August 18, 2010 | Tags: 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), Altsean-Burma, Democratic Party (Myanmar), Kayin State Democracy and Development Party, Shan National Democratic Party, UN Secretary General, Union Democracy Party, Union Election Commission, Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, United Kingdom, United States | Read more >>