Friday, November 12, 2010

Frustrations Increase After Myanmar Vote

Wall Street Journal
November 12, 2010

Frustration over Sunday's national election in Myanmar is rising as evidence mounts that government-backed candidates dominated the polls amid reports of voting irregularities.

Myanmar's secretive military regime has only slowly released official results. As of Thursday, the government's Union Solidarity and Development Party had won 140 of the 182 contested parliamentary seats whose outcome was reported by election officials. Prime Minister Thein Sein and other prominent members of the ruling junta were among the winners.

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