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Burma's strange election

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Oct 25, 2010
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One week after the onslaught of Cyclone Nargis in 2008, the military junta holds a referendum about its new constitution. In these circumstances the people, millions of whose lives have been thrown into tragedy, don't pay much attention to it. Nevertheless the constitution is approved by more than 90 percent of the people. There is not a single independ…

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