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October 18, 2010

Burma Bars Foreign Observers and Reporters from Election
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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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