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Anonymous
Nov 08, 2011 07:23 AM

Note that Khin Aung Myint is the former director of public relations and psych warfare in the Ministry of Defense.

I fear we may soon hear the following line of argument from the USDP:

• 1990 military usurpation of NLD authority, rightly or wrongly, was intended to provide stability in wars in ethnic frontiers;
• Clearly the military abused its power, and we're ready to admit it now, for no reason in particular (while human rights abuses run rampant in ethnic states);
• Clearly the military has come a long way what with so many of them admonishing the institution's violent past and running for civil office;
• And, of course, the 1990 election results don’t matter because 2010 election results clearly show everyone how the people feel. It would indeed be irresponsible to restore rightful authority to the National League for Democracy after so many confused years. Their landslide victory came during a particularly unstable period of history, after all.

Anonymous
Nov 07, 2011 12:42 AM

Better late than never for a leading figure in the current Burmese government to acknowledge the overwhelming NLD victory in the election some dozen years ago, which was nullified violently and illegally by the military junta that put Aung Sang Su Kyi under house arrest without any sort of legal justification.