Hpa An – election day. The queues had built up well before the 6am start to vote. There was a quiet buzz around the schools being used as polling stations with families and friends emerging smiling and photographing inked fingers. Everyone said they were voting for the National League for Democracy (NLD) and they were quietly optimistic that the NLD…
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Two senior members of the Karen State’s National League for Democracy resigned from the party to join the newly formed Karen Party. According to a Karen state NLD official, Saw Poe Wah, vice chairman of NLD Karen State, and Saw K’lue Htaw, administrative committee member from Hpa-an district resigned and will contest as representatives of the Karen National Party (KNP)…
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Officials from the pro-democracy National League for Democracy party (NLD), on its first day of its signature campaign at Three Pagoda Pass Town in Kyain Seikgyi, collected more than 1,000 signatures supporting changes to Article 436 of Burma’s controversial 2008 Constitution. U Myo Aung, Deputy Director of the NLD in the Three Pagoda Pass Town spoke to Karen News about…
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National League of Democracy official confirmed to Karen News that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to Karen State in the third week of January 2014. Nan Khin Htwey Myint, an executive from the NLD party, the political party that Suu Kyi leads, told Karen News that Suu Kyi was on a goodwill visit to the State to canvass…
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National League for Democracy candidates elected as Members of Parliament in the recent by-elections will not take their seats when parliament reopens today, as they do not agree with the current constitution. U Nyan Win, a NLD spokeperson, told Karen News that his party’s MP’s were invited to the constitutional court to discuss the issue but the NLD still disagrees…
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A spokesperson for the National League for Democracy has accused members of Burma’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party of seriously injuring two of their youth members in Twantay Township, Yangon Division in early November. According to NLD members one of the youths received serious head injuries in the attack that needed hospital treatment. Ko Ye Htunt, NLD the youth…
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