Message From Suu Kyi |
| By BA KAUNG |
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Aung San Suu Kyi asks NLD members to study the Shwegondaing declaration and why the 2008 Constitution is unacceptable. |
Defiant Win Tin Celebrates 80th Birthday |
| By KO HTWE |
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Veteran pro-democracy activist Win Tin celebrates his 80th birthday, vowing to work to “dismantle the military dictatorship until my final breath.” |
If Attacked, Mon will Wage Guerrilla War |
| By LAWI WENG |
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If war breaks out between the New Mon State Party and the Burmese regime, the small cease-fire army will wage a guerrilla war. |
Election Commission Members from Various Backgrounds |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
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The 17 individuals chosen by the Burmese regime to form the Union Election Commission are a mixture of former military officers, judges, lawyers, professors and ethnic nationals. |
Junta Wants 'Yes or No' Answer from KIO |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The leading Burmese general negotiating on the border guard force order wants the KIO to give him a clear answer during meeting. |
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 |  Unless they release Suu Kyi and allow her and her party to participate in the elections, it’s a complete farce and therefore contrary to their road map to democracy,  —Alberto Romulo, foreign minister of the Philippines. |
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To Be, or Not to Be? |
| By KYAW ZWA MOE |
| All is farce when it comes to Burma’s newly released election laws. However, it wasn't unexpected. If the laws had been even a little fair, it would have been like a fantasy dream come true. |
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Regime Looks to the Law to Deal with the NLD |
| By KO KO THET | |
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India-Burma Relations Hitting a Dead End? |
| By CAMILL BUZZI and ÅSHILD KOLÅS |
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| EXCHANGE RATES |
  1 US = 1,004 kyat 1 BT = 30.15 kyat March 12, 2010 |
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Calls for Dialogue Failing |
| By KAY LATT |
| Time is running out for a genuine dialogue before the election, and the regime is moving ahead despite all appeals by democratic groups and ethnic nationalities. |
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Similarities and Contrasts Between 1990 and 2010: But Will the Fundamentals Change? |
| By AUNG NAING OO | |
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An Alternative Solution to Amend the Constitution |
| By HTET AUNG |
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| BEYOND 1988— REFLECTIONS |
Radio Interception: A Key Survival Skill During War |
 Of the many skills the ABSDF learned from the KNU, few were as valuable as the ability to intercept and decipher radio transmissions by the Burmese army.
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