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Suu Kyi fights party dissolution
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a lawsuit with Burma’s Supreme Court Thursday in an attempt to prevent the dissolution of her party under a controversial new election law.
The detained pro-democracy icon’s lawyer said two suits were submitted against the top junta leader Senior General Than Shwe, one on behalf of Suu Kyi herself and the other by her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
The Nobel peace laureate asked the court to annul the part of the election law that would have forced the party to oust its detained leader in order to participate in the first polls to be held in two decades.
Instead, her party decided last month to boycott the elections, which are expected to be later this year. The NLD faces dissolution if it fails to re-register by 6 May.
In addition, the lawsuits asked for the formation of a parliament made up of lawmakers who won in 1990 elections, her lawyer Kyi Win told reporters.
The Supreme Court is expected to announce Friday whether it will accept the request to hear the matter, he said.
Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory in the 1990 polls, but the junta never allowed it to take office, and placed her under house arrest for 14 of the next 20 years.
Burma’s new election law nullifies the result of the 1990 polls.
“You can’t change the rules during the game,” Kyi Win said of the new legislation. “We have to say these matters at the high court if we are allowed.”
In February the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest.
The 64-year-old opposition leader had her incarceration lengthened by 18 months in August after being convicted over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her lakeside home in Rangoon.
Critics dismiss the planned elections as a sham designed to entrench the power of the military which has ruled since 1962.
Burma’s prime minister and 22 other ministers retired from their military posts this week, in a move seen as converting the leadership to civilian form ahead of elections due this year.
Tags: aung san suu kyi, Elections, national league for democracy
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Thanshwe has a wicked smiles on this. He is the head of state whatever is going on. He knows that no one on earth can touch or try him. NLD should put a side the confrontational approach. For sure, some doors are open, the size of the door is not important for now,but it is big enough to let the persons in, it is not closed.
daw suu kyi or NLD cant do anything in myanmar.than shwe is more stronger with full nasty army backing, nothing gonna change inside myanmar as long as people are coward, all people have to revolt the nasty army n the junta. it is time to revolt, long live myanmar revolt.
i think the non-violent strategy that people are using is not effective. if we look back at history, the success of revolution comes from the use of some forms of violence. Afterall, we’r fighting evil with evil. let’s form a team of hitmen and militia groups to fight for freedom..who’s with me?
Dear All,
Do you mean that Than Shwe is problem?
By this you mean that problems will solved when Than Shwe die, do you?
Before Than Shwe what cause you problem?
NLD was wrong on first place to form CEC with calculating ex-generals. Revolution is not the task of politicians but for patriots. They should gave young students this chance who were willing to sacrifice. I never saw any NLD leadership on every crisis or riots , but in meeting with UN envoys.