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Burmese Party Is Outlawed

Published: December 21, 1990

The military rulers of Myanmar, formerly called Burma, today outlawed the democracy party that won an overwhelming victory in general elections in May. In an announcement read on the radio, the Election Commission said that the National League for Democracy of Tin Oo and Aung San Suu Kyi, both detained by the Government, was no longer a legal party. The move follows the setting up of a parallel government in the jungle by some of the party members elected in May to a Parliament that the Government has never allowed to meet.