...explained. This brings into question what role tourism plays on the political scene. Both the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese unions have asked travelers not to visit their country as long as the military regime is in power. Asking...
...Md., will visit San Rafael's Dominican University on Saturday to accept an honorary degree for his first cousin, Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the worldwide face of the Burmese democracy movement, has been under house arrest...
...to hold nationwide elections by 2010. After the last elections, which the junta lost to the party of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 1990, it rejected the results and restrained pro-democracy leaders. But the proposed constitution, in the making...
...the junta, is a stacked deck: mandating a role for the military in the government and banning detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running for office because she was once married to a foreigner. Amid images of voters casting ballots,...
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