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	Single-party state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		A one-party system should not be confused with a dominant-party system in which an opposition is not officially prohibited, but it is largely ineffective (has no realistic chance of becoming the government), nor should it be confused with a non-partisan democracy which, by the consent of the electorate, prohibits all political parties.
		A single-party state or one-party system or single-party system is a type of party system and form of government where only a single political party dominates the government and no opposition parties are allowed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Single-party_state (832 words)

	Current Situation in Burma
		Burma is currently one of the world's largest producers of illicit opium and the primary source of amphetamine-type stimulants in Asia, producing an estimated 800 million methamphetamine tablets per year.
		Burma's opium is grown predominantly in Shan State, in areas controlled by former insurgent groups.
		Burma is a country of origin for trafficked persons, primarily of women and girls to Thailand as factory workers, household servants, and for sexual exploitation.
	www.state.gov /p/eap/rls/rm/2002/11264.htm (3338 words)

	BBCBurmese.com
		At the moment in Burma, the National League for Democracy is the main democratic party although the National Unity Party and eight ethnic parties are also legally standing political organisations.
		When I was in Burma, SPDC has brainwashed us that politics is very dirty and misled and that only they were doing national politics and on the other hand, NLD and other oppositions groups are either party-profit-driven politicians or insurgents.
		Political parties and politicians in Burma were the tools of the military government when they play political circus in the East Asia and the world's stage.
	www.bbc.co.uk /burmese/forum/story/2004/06/printable/040629_call4_new_party_winnaing.shtml (1362 words)

	Zomi National Congress
		In Chin state, the member parties of UNLD won eight of thirteen seats, four seats by NLD, and one by National Unity Party (NUP).
		The party was given a chance to campaign on national television in Myanmar in which the President proudly delivered a campaign massage to the public.
		Zomi National Congress party (ZNC) is one of the political parties registered to military government of Myanmar in 1988, under the multi-party election law.
	members.aol.com /znc21/znc.html (906 words)

	Burma
		Burma has been largely isolated from international economic forces and has been trying to encourage foreign investment, so far with little success.
		The nation has been unable to achieve any substantial improvement in export earnings because of falling prices for many of its major commodity exports.
		For rice, traditionally the most important export, the drop in world prices has been accompanied by shrinking markets and a smaller volume of sales.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /Library/Reference/World_Factbook/Burma (109 words)

	National Labor Committee
		National Democracy League member Daw San Saw was sentenced in 1998 to 25 years in prison for participating in a radio interview critical of the military junta.
		The National League for Democracy, and its leader Nobel Prize Laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is calling for international economic sanctions as a last resort to remove the brutal military regime.
		Burma, the world's heroin capital, accounts for 2/3 of the heroin entering the United States.
	www.nlcnet.org /campaigns/archive/BURMA/Imports.shtml (1442 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition
		The BSPP was renamed the National Unity Party to contest the 1990 elections.
		February 18, 2004—A National Unity Party spokesman said that every political group, including the National League for Democracy, should be included in a restarted National Convention.
		The National Convention was opened in 1993 to draw up a new constitution, then suspended by the government in March 1996.
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2004/feb17.html (279 words)

	Free Burma: General Info
		The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma was formed with legal Parlimentary representatives officially elected by the people in the elections of May 1990.
		Burma was colonized by the British in 1886 and became independent in 1948.
		This is a complilation of documents of the United Nations General Assembly, on the Situation in Myanmar wherein the United Nations expresses its grave concern for the people of Burma.
	www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/geninfo.html (876 words)

	Burma (08/05)
		Political parties: National League for Democracy (NLD) is the primary opposition party; National Unity Party (NUP) is the primary pro-regime party; the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) is a pro-regime social organization; and other smaller parties.
		Burma became a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in 1952, the International Financial Corporation (IFC) in 1956, the International Development Association (IDA) in 1962, and the ADB in 1973.
		Burma remains a primarily agricultural economy with 54% of GDP derived from agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and forestry.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35910.htm (4230 words)

	Myanmar Embassy Paris
		There have already been designated that the President of the Union is the national leader of all the citizens; the President of the Union represents the nation; and the President of the Union occupies a position of the highest honour in the whole of the Union of Myanmar.
		In regions or states, self-administered areas are to be prescribed for national races who reside together with communities on the same common stretches of land in appropriate sizes of population, other than national races who have already got regions or states.
		Except from the national races that have gained Self-administered Division or Self-administered Region, a representative of the rest of the national races will be eligible to take part in the leading committee of the Self-administered Division or Self-administered Region if its population will stand at over 10,000.
	www.myanmarembassyparis.com /current/may/2004May18.html (652 words)

	BURMA - A kaleidoscope of peoples
		Ethnic nationalities: Burman, Rakhine, Kachin, Chin, Akha, Lisu and Naga.
		Until recently, armed Burman opponents of the military regime have tended to belong to the Democratic Alliance of Burma or the Communist Party of Burma.
		Otherwise Burma could become another Yugoslavia – and this is a justification the country’s military uses to hold on to power.
	www.newint.org /issue280/kaleidoscope.htm (1478 words)

	Resource Information Center
		The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) was legally registered on October 13, 1988 and declared to develop a new constitution advocating democracy as an offshoot of The All Burma Federation of Students Union (ABFSU).
		The Communist Party of Burma (CPB), also known as The Burma Communist Party (BCP), was founded primarily as an underground insurgent organization, even though the CPB was later registered as a legal political party.
		A new Constitution was adopted, and Burma became The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/MMR00002.htm (4482 words)

	AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS
		As Saw Doh Say, a member of the Karenni National Progressive Party, explains, in 1990 there were elections in Burma in which the pro-regime National Unity Party took part and allowed all other parties to participate as well.
		On Saturday, 18 March, the Freedom of the City of Dublin was conferred on the 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate and Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who symbolises the resistance of the Burmese population to the military regime that has oppressed them for the last 38 years.
		Burma's is the largest refugee population in Asia, with over 100,000 people on the Thai-Burmese border alone.
	republican-news.org /archive/2000/March30/30worl.html (1197 words)

	RIC Query - Burma [Myanmar] (24 June 2002)
		A Washington, DC representative of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, a government-in-exile set up by representatives elected in 1990, said in a telephone interview that he was not sure when the NLD would be allowed to reopen more offices outside of Burma's two main cities (Representative 18 Jun 2002).
		National identity cards, which all Burmese must carry, and passports generally indicate the ethnicity of non-Burmans, either explicitly or through the use of personal titles in ethnic minority languages rather than in Burmese (U.S. DOS 2 Mar 2002).
		In 1990, the government permitted parliamentary elections, in which the National League for Democracy (NLD), the opposition political party headed by pro-democracy leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won over 60 percent of the popular vote and 80 percent of parliamentary seats.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/MMR02001.htm (5450 words)

	Burma
		The National League of Democracy (NLD) won the poll claiming 392 of 485 available seats (SLORC's National Unity Party won just ten seats) only to learn that SLORC then barred them from assuming power saying that a state-appointed constitution had to be passed by national referendum first.
		Asiaweek noted "If Burma's generals had a modicum of vision, let alone integrity, they would realize that the only way to diffuse the problem of the ethnic minorities, the only way to win respect at home and abroad is to come up with a genuine political solution and not a phony charter.
		She is the only person capable of forging an understanding with the ethnic guerrillas and uniting Burma.
	www.scottmurray.com /Burma.htm (1318 words)

	The Epoch Times Burma's Military to Call Constitutional Convention despite Boycott
		The party said the government also has ignored other key conditions that would have allowed members of the opposition to participate in drafting a new national charter.
		In a statement, the U.S. State Department said national reconciliation and democracy in Burma depend on discussions between the government, ethnic minorities, and the NLD.
		The main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, said Friday it will not take part because military rulers have not released its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-5-16/21481.html (315 words)

	Contemporary Burma
		Party's main function was to legitimize army rule.
		In 1999, Burma’s level of economic development one of lowest in Southeast Asia.
		Ethnic connotations, implying country is the land of the majority ethnic group, the Burmans.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /crossroads/cneher/cn.burma.htm (499 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition
		April 08, 2004—Burma’s main opposition National League for Democracy party, or NLD, on Thursday responded to a government invitation to attend its National Convention, due to be re-convened on May 17, by calling for the release of its secretary-general Aung San Suu Kyi.
		The reconvening of the National Convention marks the first of a seven-step road map to democracy announced by Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt in August last year.
		Five NLD party executives, received invitation letters to the convention on Wednesday, party executive Nyunt Wei told The Irrawaddy today from Rangoon.
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2004/april09.html (502 words)

	Gateway Pundit: Burma, A Cry in the Dark
		She dismissed the question as nonsense in view of the huge support for the party.
		A truly representative government should be ruling Burma in place of the self-appointed, self-serving dictators now in charge.
		In the 15 years since the election, Burma should have gone to the polls a further three times.
	gatewaypundit.blogspot.com /2005/05/burma-cry-in-dark.html (1080 words)

	Myanmar (Burma)
		Party abbreviation: NLD = National League for Democracy (social-democratic, leader: Aung San Suu Kyi, won 27 May 1990 election, party then banned); PSPB = Party of the Socialist Program of Burma (socialist, "Lanzin", -only legal party 1974-1988); TS = Taingyintha Silonenyinyutye (National Unity Party, dictatorial, pro-military regime); Mil = Military;
		Exile National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
		- Former parties: AFPFL = Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (anti-Japanese occupation, nationalist); NP = National Party; PP = Patriotic Party; UnP = Union Party; UP = United Party
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Myanmar.htm (1458 words)

	History
		(The military backed "National Unity Party" won 10 seats.) The military declared the election void [6]
		1988, July 23: Gen. Ne Win steps down as Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) after 26 years, triggering a pro-democracy movement [1].
		1990, Spring: The SLORC holds naitonal elections, with the National League for Democracy (NLD) winning by a landslide: 392 of the 485 seats- 80%.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~mmlacure/history.html (275 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Legislative branch
		elections: (next to be held August 2006); direct elections for national parliament were never held; elected delegates to the national convention named themselves legislators instead of having elections; hence the exceptional numbers for this term of the national parliament.
		unicameral National Assembly or Bunge (224 seats; 210 members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms, 12 so-called "nominated" members who are appointed by the president but selected by the parties in proportion to their parliamentary vote totals, 2 ex-officio members)
		bicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional consists of the Senate or Senado (32 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (150 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/fields/2101.html (11165 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition
		The BSPP was renamed the National Unity Party to contest the 1990 elections.
		The NUP was formerly the Burma Socialist Program Party, or BSPP, which ruled Burma for 26 years until 1988, when the military assumed control.
		The National Convention was opened in 1993 to draw up a new constitution, then suspended by the government in March 1996.
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2004/feb17.html (279 words)

	Vol 11. No. 10, December 2003 - Interview
		In successive armies, such as the BNA (Burma National Army) and PBF (Patriotic Burmese Forces), there were many new communist party members.
		National unity disintegrated with all the consequences, such as the PVO and some ethnic groups going underground, which added fuel to the flames.
		You were forced to leave the Burma Army after being accused of leaking information to the communists.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/2003/vol11.10/interview.html (1569 words)

	Karen People: Life in Picture
		Currently because of the chauvinistic behavior of the fascist military dictatorship of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) and the State Law and Restoration Council (SLORC), the indigenous nationalities are deprived of their ethnic rights.
		Burma is a country where indigenous nationalities have lived together in adjacent territories for the last several millenia.
		To attain equality, freedom, unity, security, fraternity, trust and development in the Federal Union, the main tasks which are necessary are to topple the SLORC military dictatorship and to establish democracy, peace and true Federal Union.
	www.kwekalu.net /photojournal1/soldier/story5.html (1569 words)

	History
		(The military backed "National Unity Party" won 10 seats.) The military declared the election void [6]
		1988, July 23: Gen. Ne Win steps down as Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) after 26 years, triggering a pro-democracy movement [1].
		1987 Burma is put on the United Nations list of most underdeveloped countries [6]
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~mmlacure/history.html (1569 words)

	AllRefer.com - Burma: Government (**burma-adj Government) :Capital, National** Holiday, Constitution, Political Parties, and more.
		National League for Democracy or NLD [AUNG SHWE, chairman, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, general secretary]; National Unity Party or NUP (proregime) [THA KYAW]; Shan Nationalities League for Democracy or SNLD [KHUN TUN OO]; Union Solidarity and Development Association or USDA (proregime, a social and political organization) [THAN AUNG, general secretary]; and other smaller parties
		AllRefer.com - Burma: Government (**burma-adj Government) :Capital, National** Holiday, Constitution, Political Parties, and more.
		note: since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw
	reference.allrefer.com /world/countries/burma/government.html (547 words)

	National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
		National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
		DOKNU = Democratic Organization for Kayan National Unity
		NDPHR = National Democratic Party for Human Rights
	www.ncgub.net /campaign/PV_MPs_in_Detention.htm (547 words)

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