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...overnight curfew ended, a squad of soldiers lifted barbed-wire barricades from the middle of Rangoon's tree-lined University Avenue. Then they took up positions, as they do every day, at four sentry boxes in front of the residential compound where Aung San Suu Kyi, 46, the leader of Burma's democratic opposition, has been under house arrest since July...
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week that they could not be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi even knew she had been awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. But if she has access to a shortwave radio, she would have learned the news from overseas without delay. As the head of an opposition using "nonviolent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality," read the Nobel citation, Aung San Suu Kyi has become "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." Within hours much of Burma -- which the ruling junta...
...worldwide amazement, the May 1990 elections in Burma, renamed Myanmar last year, were generally free and fair. The League, under the leadership of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of Burma's national hero, won a huge majority in parliament. The military showed its true colors by keeping her under house arrest and calling for a convention to draw up a new constitution, a process that could take years...
...step backward. Citing "security reasons," government forces in Rangoon and Mandalay arrested six top leaders of the National League for Democracy, the opposition party that won 80% of the seats in the national legislature. The arrests came a week after the junta said it would release N.L.D. leader Aung San Suu Kyi if she agreed to leave the country. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest in July 1989, after she led a series of antigovernment rallies and criticized Burma's behind-the-scenes strongman...
With or without Aung San Suu Kyi's release, her party must move quickly to cement its mandate. Party leaders aim to call the new National Assembly into session within 60 days after the election. To forestall extensive negotiations over the drafting of a new constitution, the league may resurrect the 1947 constitution, which was suspended in 1962. And it plans to invite the junta to enter into talks on the transfer of power. "We have to calm the present political anger and forget about political reprisals," says Khin Nghwe, 48, who belongs to the league's executive committee...