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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa talks with an aide ahead of the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Sirte, Libya, 27 Mar 2010
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 |  The government must create conditions that give all stakeholders the opportunity to participate freely in elections. This includes the release of all political prisoners — including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — and respect for fundamental freedoms.  —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon |
Veteran Politicians Denounce Election Laws on Armed Forces Day |
| By KO HTWE and KYAW THEIN KHA |
| Leaders of Burma's independence struggle send a letter to the head of the country's ruling junta on Armed Forces Day to demand changes to new election laws. |
Tin Oo Calls on Army to Stay Out of Politics |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The NLD vice-chairman and former army chief urges the army to stay out of politics, as Burma's junta leader tells troops that the army should “serve in national politics whenever the need arises.” |
To Contest or Not? NLD Faces Tough Elections Test |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Is pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi condemning the opposition party that she heads in military-ruled Burma to political irrelevance or, worse still, a burial ahead of forthcoming elections? |
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| By LALIT K JHA |
| The US armed forces is ready to re-engage in a military dialogue with Burma's ruling junta if Washington changes its policy toward the country, says a top US military official. |
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| By AUNG ZAW |
| Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gives junta leader Than Shwe a smart sidekick in response to his election plans. |
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က်ေနာ္တို႔နဲ႔ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္မွာ အတူေနခဲ့တဲ့ ကိုမိုးျမင့္ တေယာက္ ေမွာ္ဘီမွာ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္ အဆံုးစီရင္ သြားတယ္ ဆုိတဲ့ သတင္းက က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆီကို ၀င္လာတယ္၊ 
အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) အဖဲြ႔၀င္ မ်ားသည္ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ေကာ္မရွင္တြင္ ပါတီမွတ္ပုံ တင္ေရး မတင္ေရး၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ ပဲြတြင္ ပါ၀င္ေရး၊ မပါ၀င္ေရး အတြက္ မၾကာမီ ရက္ပုိင္း အတြင္း 
“တဖက္နဲ႔တဖက္ ကြဲျပားၿပီး ရန္ျဖစ္ တာမ်ဳိးတို႔၊ ငါနဲ႔မတူ ငါ့ရန္သူ ဆိုတာမ်ဳိးတို႔ ...” 
“က်ဳပ္အထင္ေတာ့ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အခုအခ်ိန္မွာ လုပ္ရမွာက ပါတီမွတ္ပံု တင္သင့္ မတင္သင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးရမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးဗ်။ ေသေရးရွင္ေရး ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ၉၀ မန္းဒိတ္နဲ႔ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ ေၾကညာမလား မေၾကညာဘူးလား တိုက္ပြဲေခၚဖို႔ အႀကိတ္အနယ္ ေဆြးေႏြးရမယ့္ အခ်ိန္ဗ်။ အခုက ဘာေတြ ေလွ်ာက္လုပ္ေနမွန္းမသိပါဘူးဗ်ာ။ ေတာ္ေတာ့္ကို လြဲပါတယ္။ အားကိုးတႀကီး မဲေပးခဲ့တဲ့ ... ” 
ပန္ဆန္းႏွင့္ အျခား ၀ ျပည္နယ္ ၿမိဳ႕မ်ား႐ွိ ၀န္ထမ္း ႏွင့္ NGO, UN လုပ္သားမ်ားအား နအဖ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား ၂-၃ ရက္အတြင္း ေနရပ္သို႕ျပန္ရန္ ၫႊန္ၾကားလိုက္သည့္ကိစၥအေပၚ က်ီးလန္႕စာစား တံုလႈပ္ေျခာက္ျခားျခင္းမ႐ွိၾကရန္ ၀ ေဒသခံအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ပန္ဆန္းလူထုအား႐ွင္းလင္းေဟာေျပာခဲ့သည္ဟု စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
တရုတ္ႏွင့္ ထိုင္းမွ ထုတ္လုပ္သည့္ ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆိုက္ကယ္မ်ားကိုသာ အသံုးမ်ားသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေနာက္ဘက္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ အိႏၵိယထုတ္ ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆိုင္ကယ္မ်ားကိုလည္း ယခုအခါ လူႀကိဳက္ မ်ားလာ ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုက္ကယ္ ပြဲစားတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
