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A fair day in Burma
Our coverage of Myanmar's (then Burma) "free and fair" elections in 1990
This week, the National League for Democracy, lead by Aung San Suu Kyi, won a landslide election victory in Myanmar. The last time the NLD participated in a national election was May 27th 1990. Soon after this piece was published, the military junta refused to recognise the results. This is our coverage of events that week:
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