Elections but no Democracy: Burma's Future After the November Vote

Elections but No Democracy: Burma’s Future After the November Vote

Monday, November 29, 2010

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW

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Introduction:    Jamie Fly
                           Executive Director
                           Foreign Policy Initiative

Panelists:          Kelley Currie
                           Senior Fellow
                           Project 2049 

                           Aung Din
                           Executive Director
                           U.S. Campaign for Burma

                           Frank Jannuzi
                           East Asia Specialist
                           Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Moderator:        Brian Joseph
                           Senior Director for Asia and Global Programs
                           National Endowment for Democracy

Excerpt from FPI Director of Democracy and Human Rights Ellen Bork’s “Beyond Burma's Phony ‘Election’":

Twenty years ago, the people of Burma voted in an election that the ruling military junta hoped it could manipulate in order to rebuff international pressure for reform and consolidate its power. To the generals’ chagrin, the party of the democratic opposition, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won overwhelmingly, even though she herself was under house arrest. Undeterred, the generals ignored the election results, and over the past two decades secured Burma’s reputation as one of the most repressive governments in the world by using forced labor, rape, and imprisonment against their citizens...

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