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January 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But a victory would be historic. It would give the longtime political prisoner
a voice in Parliament for the first time after decades as the country’s
opposition leader.
Miss Suu Kyi registered to run for a seat representing Kawhmu, a poor district
south of Rangoon where villagers’ livelihoods were devastated by Cyclone
Nargis in 2008. Many in the crowds that greeted her at the Election
Commission office in Thanlyin wore Suu Kyi T-shirts.
Suu Kyi paraphernalia has proliferated in recent months with vendors hawking
photographs, key chains and calendars with her image, seen as another
testament to the country’s breakneck pace of change.
The Election Commission must still accept Miss Suu Kyi’s candidacy, a ruling
expected to come next month. Her party has so far chosen 44 candidates to
contest the 48 seats vacated by legislators who became Cabinet ministers.
Miss Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won a landslide victory in
1990 elections but was denied power by the military junta. Burma’s next
elections did not come for 20 years, but Miss Suu Kyi was under house arrest
and her party boycotted due to what they called unfair and undemocratic
rules.
Reforms since that election in 2010 have drawn Miss Suu Kyi and her party back
into mainstream politics and won international praise and measured
diplomatic support.
The United States is upgrading diplomatic relations and sending an ambassador
to Burma for the first time in two decades.
The severe international sanctions that restrict Burma’s trade and the travel
and financial transactions of the former junta’s inner circle mostly remain,
as countries monitor how the April vote is conducted and weigh other
considerations.
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