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...posts for members of the army and denying public office to anyone with a prison record or who was married to a foreigner. (Many NLD members have been thrown into jail, and Suu Kyi was married to a British academic who died of cancer.) (Read "In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope...
...whole process was such a sham, especially with the SCC leaking the link to their closest friends.” wrote John M. Mistovich ’09 in an e-mailed statement. “I’m glad they realized what happened Sunday night was wildly unfair and are redoing the process...
...once ruled the country; the word has become synonymous with any number of antigovernment forces.) Tribal elders say the fight in the Korengal is directed and funded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who was once backed by the U.S. and has links to al-Qaeda. Nevertheless, says valley elder Sham Sher Khan, the way to counter the insurgency hasn't changed. He thinks reopening the timber trade would help. "The Taliban say they are fighting because there are Americans here and it's a jihad. But the fact is, they aren't fighting for religion. They are fighting for money...
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...what the point of a vote was if we were not going to make a decision based on the results of that vote.” Another called the survey “deceptive and disappointing,” and accused HoCo of “holding a sham survey to try and get a mandate for a predecided course of action (holding the formal in Lev) and reneging when the results didn’t go as planned.” In response, HoCo issued an apology for the confusion of having two surveys and dispelled the notions...