More than 1000 MPs today made their way to Naypyidaw’s new parliament building to join Burma’s first session in more than 20 years. Security was tight and media was banned…
Day: January 31, 2011
Shwe Mann elected as speaker
Burmese junta’s former third-in-command to chair lower house as first day of historic parliamentary session comes to an end
This parliament makes a mockery of democracy
There is little to suggest that Than Shwe’s parliament is anything more than a brain room for his thinly disguised military dictatorship
Journalists barred from parliament
Authorities keeping a close eye on reporters in Naypyidaw as road leading up to the parliament building is barricaded with barbed wire