Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘will not vote’
World News • October 2010 • Views: 515
Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will refuse to vote in the general election on 7 November.
Her lawyer, Nyan Win, said that although her name was on a voters’ list, she would not take part in a poll organised by the military.
Ms Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory in the last election in 1990 but the junta annulled the result, and kept her in near continuous detention.
The poll is seen by many as a sham that will just cement the military’s power.