The NLD refused to register for the election without Suu Kyi, who was then released from house arrest four days after the election. On November 9, 2010, Myanmar’s ruling junta stated that they had won the country’s first elections in 20 years with 80 percent of the votes. She spent the next two decade in and out of military confinement. These election results were later annulled by the military government.Īung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest for the first time in 1989.
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The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won around 80% of seats. In May 1990, the government held the first free elections in almost thirty years. The Rohingya were left stateless, subject to restrictions on freedom of movement and property ownership, denied access to education, and unable to hold public office. The government justified the Citizenship Act by claiming that the Rohingya were Bengali, even though the Rohingya had been living in Myanmar for generations. Four years later, in 1982, the government enacted the Myanmar Citizenship Law and stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship.
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In this majority Buddhist nation, the regime was responsible for major human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minority groups – including the Muslim Rohingya living in the Rakhine state.įrom 1977-1978, Myanmar’s military government carried out killings, rape, and arson against the Rohingya in western Myanmar. Myanmar was under the rule of an oppressive military junta from 1962 until 2011.