Is the NLD in any shape to press for change?... "The National Convention ground into motion once more in February, but again Burma?s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, or NLD, was absent. And that?s probably just as well, because the NLD seems to be in no shape right now to meet the regime leaders head on. It?s not just that NLD Secretary General Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest, unable to hold a political meeting in her own home, let alone participate in one outside her confining four walls. The united front that once defined the party as a viable political movement has now turned into an amorphous grouping of often opposing views—some claim the NLD is no longer a credible force to challenge the rule of the generals or even to share government..."