Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.
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Detained activists on hunger strike have spurned an NLD request to end their protest.
The overwhelming NLD election victory has raised concerns about whether opposition parties will be able to perform an effective check and balance role in Myanmar's next parliament.
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Polls closed at 4pm Sunday and the waiting began. Thousands gathered outside opositon NLD headquarters to watch the counting on the big screen.
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Myanmar wrapped up a remarkably peaceful election on Sunday, although the process was dogged by opposition complaints of crowded polling stations, duplicated ballots and allegations of vote-buying.
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