Thuang Htun on The Interviewpoint pt 1

From www.theinterviewpoint.com
Seventeen years after the election, Dr. Thuang Htun works from a tiny office across the street from the United Nations. He represents a government that doesn't exist.

In 1990, Burma went to the polls and in a resounding rejection of the ruling junta awarded 82 percent of the seats in Parliament to the National League for Democracy. But the military government refused to acknowledge the results and instead jailed many of the party's leaders and forced others into exile.

Only in the last few weeks has Thuang Htun had reason to see hope in the building across the street. Though China and Russia stand ready to veto a Security Council resolution aimed at the Burmese government, there is growing commitment from western powers like the United States to make Burma an issue.

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