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Title: NLD
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Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Prisoner Lists - Members of parliament
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Research Pages
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: UN resolutions and reports on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Description: There are references to the NLD in all the GA and CHR resolutions on Myanmar and reports of the Special Rapporterus on Myanmar.
Source/publisher: United Nations
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-15
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Title: Introducing ‘Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics’
Description: ''The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not proved so straightforward. The fractures at the heart of Myanmar’s political system have become tragically clear since the heady optimism of late 2015 and early 2016. The NLD government has announced various policy initiatives aimed at achieving sustainable and inclusive development. Yet conflict persists, issues of citizenship and belonging remain vexed and the everyday struggles faced by many people continue. Meanwhile Myanmar’s restive borderlands have been the site of brutal military campaigns which have displaced more than a million Rohingya, Kachin, Rakhine, Shan and Karen civilians internally and across borders. Though resilient within Myanmar, the perception of Aung San Suu Kyi as an icon of moral struggle is now tarnished internationally following her government’s response to these crises, especially in Rakhine State. A recently released book volume, Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics, published by the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, grapples with the contradictions and possibilities at the core of Myanmar’s current political moment. The chapters are drawn from the 2017 Myanmar Update held in Canberra at Australian National University, which took as its theme “Transformations”. The chapter authors examine issues at the core of Myanmar’s societal fractures including civil-military relations, natural resources and conflict, the securitisation of the Rohingya and the possibilities for progressive government action to foster a more vibrant and peaceful democracy. The book was launched at lively panel discussions in Singapore and Yangon in November 2018, held with the support of ISEAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Myanmar. The free Introduction to the volume is now available in English and, thanks to the support of IDRC, in Burmese language also. The Introduction surveys the current political moment in Myanmar and assess the possibilities for reform in the context of the current arrangement of partial civilian rule. The 2019 Myanmar Update, to be held at the ANU in Canberra on 15th and 16th March, builds on the issues explored in the volume and prior Update conferences. Focusing of the theme “Living with Myanmar”, more than 30 scholars from Myanmar and around the globe will examine how people navigate the institutions, ideals that continue to shape every day existence after sixty years of military rule. All members of the public, including students interested in studying Myanmar, are encouraged to attend. To see the full programme for the conference and to register your attendance please see the conference website here...''
Gerard McCarthy
Source/publisher: New Mandala
Date of publication: 2019-03-05
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-11
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Title: Members of Parliament Imprisoned Or Detained Without Trial
Description: Prisoners of conscience and NLD MPs-elect Dr. Than Nyein (m), 67, and Dr. May Win Myint (f), 55, have been imprisoned since October 1997 and are in poor states of health. They have each served a seven year prison sentence for organizing a meeting of opposition party members of the National League for Democracy (NLD). They have been detained without charge or trial since the expiry of their sentences and authorities have ordered that they remain in detention until January and February 2006 at the earliest. Both have medical problems, exacerbated by their treatment in detention. Dr. Than Nyein has repeatedly gone on hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment and his health is believed to be deteriorating seriously. Amnesty International and reiterates calls on authorities for the immediate and unconditional release from detention of these two prisoners of conscience.
Source/publisher: Amnesty International
Date of publication: 2001-05-25
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-15
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Title: Opposition Blues
Description: 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..."
Nandar Chann
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 2
Date of publication: 2005-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-15
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Title: The Fading Promise of Youth
Description: Does the NLD?s future still rest with its ?young Turks??... "With the 60th birthday of Burma?s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in June now behind them, Burma watchers, journalists, diplomats and activists are reflecting on the state of her opposition National League for Democracy and wondering what the future holds for its members. As more than 1,000 political prisoners remain held in Burma?s prisons and with Suu Kyi still under house arrest, many people have trouble retaining hope for the country?s democracy movement..."
Toby Hudson
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 7
Date of publication: 2005-06-30
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-30
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Title: Have the Students Been Dismissed?
Description: "The pro-democracy protests in August 1988 were spearheaded by students. But a lack of coordination with Burma?s opposition party and the passage of time are forcing the movement to review its strategy..."
Min Zin
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 9
Date of publication: 2003-10-31
Date of entry/update: 2004-01-10
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Title: In Balmy Burma, The Plot Sickens
Description: By The Irrawaddy "The regime in Rangoon has proven the naysayers right once again. The May 30 clash in Upper Burma, and the crackdown that followed, should remind the junta?s apologists and other optimists hoping for a happy ending to the country?s political drama that national reconciliation in Burma is a long, long way away. The events on Black Friday demonstrate clearly it?s time for the international community to take action against Burma. Failing to act ignores the suffering of the Burmese people and acknowledges the junta?s ultimate victory—a triumph scored by attrition rather than a knockout blow. The script is familiar. Suu Kyi is detained by the regime. Advocates for democracy in Burma call for her release. The generals hold firm, defying international condemnation, then give in a little. Suu Kyi is finally freed and the world applauds. International opinion is successfully manipulated. Asean, Japan and some nations in the West express appreciation for the concession and begin speaking of the junta?s democratic will. Rangoon?s victory is rewarded with more trade and more aid. Meanwhile, the opposition remains stonewalled..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 5
Date of publication: 2003-05-31
Date of entry/update: 2003-09-18
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Title: Preliminary Report of the Ad hoc Commission on Depayin Massacre
Description: "The National Council of the Union of Burma and the Burma Lawyers' Council have formed a commission on June 25, 2003 to jointly deal with the alleged assassination attempt against the leaders of the National League for Democracy, including Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, with the following programmes: The Title of the Commission - The commission will be entitled as the Ad hoc Commission on Depayin Massacre (Burma). Aim - (1) To find out the truth on the Depayin Massacre; (2) To facilitate the struggle of people, based on legal affairs, both inside Burma and in the international community, in connection with the Depayin Massacre; Programme Objectives - (1) To exert efforts to lodge a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the event that it has jurisdiction over the Depayin Massacre case; (2) To lodge a complaint or complaints with other courts in the international community including the International Criminal Tribunal to be possibly established by the United Nations Security Council if the first objective is not possible; (3) To cooperate with the people inside Burma and the international community for the emergence of an official independent investigation commission in order to find out the truth on Depayin Massacre... Contents: ... Formation of Ad hoc Commission on Depayin Massacrr; Explanatory Statement of the Ad hoc Commission; Brief Background of Depayin Massacre; Depayin Massacre; Affidavits of the Eyewitnesses; SPDC?s Press Conference; Victims of Depayin Massacre (Pictures); Appendix I - Interview with Zaw Zaw Aung 50; Appendix II - Statement of Ko Aung Aung from Democratic Party for a New Society; Appendix III - The list of the vitims of Depayin Massacre.
Source/publisher: Ad hoc Commission on Depayin Massacre
Date of publication: 2003-07-04
Date of entry/update: 2003-07-17
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Title: Burma?s Forced Registration - the Final Onslaught?
Description: "Burmese opposition groups in exile were surprised when the military regime announced: ?In the Belin township, all National League for Democracy (NLD) members have resigned from their party. They have sent their resignation letters, the party billboard and all NLD documents to township Election Commission. So there is no NLD in Belin, Mon state.? The state-controlled media announcement very clearly signals the start of an offensive against the NLD party..."
Win Htein
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 6, No. 6
Date of publication: 1998-11-30
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Crackdowns and Stand-Offs, Threats and Rhetoric
Description: The past decade has seen plenty of action, and heard even more words of both hope and intimidation, but the fulfillment of the Burmese people?s dream of creating a democratic nation remains as elusive as ever. Below is a synopsis of some of the salient events surrounding the elections of May 1990 and subsequent efforts to implement the National League for Democracy?s landslide victory.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 4-5
Date of publication: 2000-03-31
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: NLD Leaders Holding Consultations
Description: In the latest sign that the talks in Rangoon may be going somewhere, sources close to the National League for Democracy NLD have confirmed that a number of party elders have moved into the residential compound of General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9. No. 3 (Intelligence section)
Date of publication: 2001-03-31
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: The NLD: Victor or Victim?
Description: Ten years have passed since the National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in Burma?s first free elections since the military seized power in 1962. Nobody knows when-or if--the results of the 1990 elections will ever be honored. As the military?s hold on power only seems to grow stronger with time, many wonder if the NLD is doomed to become a victim of history,
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 4-5
Date of publication: 2000-03-31
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Title: Uphill Battle of the NLD
Description: Moe Aye chronicles events and developments since the NLD?s dramatic electoral victory eight years ago... "If the SPDC (Slorc) had respected the results of the May 1990 election, and the parliamentary term was limited to four years, we would now be at the end of the second parliamentary term, and political parties would be busy organizing for the next elections. But this is o?nly a dream at the moment..."
Moe Aye
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 6, No. 3
Date of publication: 1998-04-30
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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