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Myanmar junta dissolves Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party, much of opposition

  • Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, or NLD, was one of 40 parties ordered dissolved in an official announcement published on Wednesday
  • Critics say still-unscheduled polls will be neither free nor fair in a military-ruled country that has closed free media and arrested most NLD leaders

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Myanmar’s military government took another major step in its ongoing campaign to cripple its political opponents on Wednesday, dissolving dozens of opposition parties including that of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to meet a registration deadline ahead of elections.
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Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, or NLD, was one of 40 parties ordered dissolved in an official announcement by the election commission published on Wednesday in the state-controlled press. The NLD governed Myanmar with overwhelming majorities in parliament from 2015 to 2021 before being overthrown by the military.

The NLD had already announced that it would not register, denouncing the promised polls as a sham.

The party, and other critics, say the still-unscheduled elections will be neither free nor fair in a military-ruled country that has shut free media and arrested most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s party.

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The NLD won a landslide victory in the November 2020 election, but in February 2021, the army blocked all elected lawmakers from taking their seats in parliament and seized power, detaining top members of Suu Kyi’s government and party.
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