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Court rejects Suu Kyi party appeal
Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s party saw its hopes for a political future dashed again on Friday as the country’s Supreme Court brushed aside its latest appeal against dissolution.
The court in the capital Naypyidaw took only a few minutes to reject the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) legal bid, according to Kyaw Hoe, a lawyer for the party.
Suu Kyi has all but exhausted her options in the courts to reinstate the party as a political entity after it was dissolved by Burma’s ruling junta last year ahead of controversial elections. But Kyaw Hoe said they could keep fighting.
“We have to decide whether we will continue the legal process… We can apply directly to the Chief Justice again according to the law. But we have to discuss with NLD senior members,” he said.
Court verdicts in the military-ruled country rarely favour opposition activists and a series of appeals by Suu Kyi against her house arrest – before it expired in November – were rejected.
Shortly after Suu Kyi’s release, the Supreme Court refused to hear her lawsuit against the junta for dissolving the NLD. She had unsuccessfully filed an earlier suit with the same court aimed at preventing its abolition.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was freed from more than seven years in detention on November 13, days after a poll in which the main junta-backed party claimed overwhelming victory, amid opposition claims of intimidation and fraud.
The NLD won a 1990 election in a landslide but the result was never recognised by the regime.
The party was disbanded last year for choosing to boycott the country’s first election in 20 years in response to rules that seemed designed to bar Suu Kyi from taking part.
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This decision, as it is, is not unexpected at any rate, inspite of the oft-repeated statements of hope for the better.
Good legal and common sense not- withstanding, the courts must take orders from the illegetimate chief of a gangsters and godfather, not from a law-abiding citizen. They have been violators of law since their beginning in the U Ne Win era.
Rest, Lady, please rest to recover all your strength. A long, hard fight lies ahead.
We people gather under the banner of the fighting peocock and the bamboo hat. We will fight on. See if this tyranical dictatgorship outlasts our lives; we hacve waves of young generations behind us. The junta head is old and has no willing, honest followers.
We will leave a legacy of this fight for posterity, and see if we can leave a worthy heritage before we are gone.
We will write a history of truth and honour for our children and rheir children. We must show that we have done our duty.
A showdown is close by.
I admire your spirit so much, PB Publico. May Burma succeed in changing its fate.
NLD’s attempt to remain in legal status under Than Shwe rule was denied by Than Shwe’s kangaroo court, as we all expected. One thing is for sure though that illegal party by the illegal government means something else in a logical way.
Meantime, evil Than Shwe’s parliament will convene on January 31. Our dreams are stolen and the nightmare comes true. This is the major step for him to aware how the people of Burma and the international community would respond to it. If things work out well on his way, then, he will form the “new government”. The neighbors like China, India and ASEAN will welcome the new government for sure. The sad reality is that the western world might not have to want to go against China by defending the democracy of a small country like Burma. They in the meantime put themselves on the sideline by taking time to calculate what kind of advantage would be rewarded for them out of Than Shwe’s promise.
Ban Ki-moon himself is sitting on the fence on this issue. He on one side complained about the fairness of the elections that ignored the will of all the oppositions and the political prisoners. On the other hand, he has kept on insisting the formation of the “new government”. If we the people of Burma ignore the sitting elephant in the room, then, Ban Ki-moon will go along with Than Shwe, who will get what he wanted in the end.
The bottom-line is we have to make some noise. We must let the world knows that we don’t accept Than Shwe’s parliament before it goes any further. We must take advantage of what is going on in Burma, the weak nature of Than Shwe’s current rule, and what’s happening around the world.