Sunday, April 1, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi 'wins landslide landmark election' as Burma rejoices

Now to see if it will be ignored once again.

Bangkok

Once we had been there for a few days, we decided that we ought to check out Burma. We went to their embassy, but it was clear that they weren't *overjoyed about Americans visiting there, (my friend had an official passport) and they did their best to do everything as slowly as possible. So, we just left and enjoyed Bangkok some more. We had understood that there was one good English hotel in Rangoon where all that they had was gin and no girls, but we wanted to visit anyway.

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The scale of the Nobel Prize-winning democracy icon's apparent victory is close to her party's performance in the 1990 constituent assembly elections, which was ignored by Burma's military rulers.

Ms Suu Kyi and other leading NLD figures spent much of the last two decades under arrest, but was freed in 2010 in a surprise move by the regime, followed by a series of political reforms.

More @ The Telegraph



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