An earful but no arm-twisting – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19021 Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) reportedly laid into their Burmese counterpart Nyan Win...
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Makeovers and Takeovers in Burma – ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-1461-98b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=115893 Burma’s military elites are ditching their uniforms so they can run as civilians in elections scheduled for later...
Election parallels between Sudan and Burma? – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18303&Submit=Submit BANGKOK—Since Gen. Omar al-Bashir’s 1989 coup, Sudan has been run as by a military dictatorship, but not quite...
Opposition: International Community Must Reject Election – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18082 More than 150 organizations representing the Burmese opposition, ethnic minority groups and overseas supporters call for the international...
Burma Election Announcement in February? – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17726&Submit=Submit BANGKOK — According to sources in the Burmese military, junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe will announce the election...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ord538=grp1&ots591=EB06339B-2726-928E-0216-1B3F15392DD8&lng=en&id=108891 ASEAN’s new human rights commission is a tiger with no teeth and highlights the organization’s continuing unwillingness to...