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Burma Bars Foreign Observers and Reporters from Election

HeadlineOct 18, 2010

The Burmese military junta has announced no foreign election observers or reporters will be allowed into the country to cover the November 7 election, Burma’s first in twenty years. Supporters of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have already called for a boycott of the election, which they say will be unfair and undemocratic. Suu Kyi’s party won the 1990 elections, but the military junta refused to recognize the results.

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