Het Burma Centrum en Transnational Institute hebben een gezamenlijk rapport uitgebracht over de verkiezingen in Birrma. Het is rapport nummer 4 in een serie van rapporten over het etnisch conflict in Birma.

Download hier het nieuwe rapport ' A Changing Ethnic Landscape: Analysis of Burma's 2010 Polls' .

A Changing Ethnic Landscape: Analysis of Burma's 2010 Polls TNI-BCN Burma Policy Briefing nr.4

 The elections held in Burma on 7 November 2010 were not free and fair. The manipulation of the vote count was even more blatant than those parties and individuals who decided to participate, despite the unlevel playing field, had expected. This has severely limited the opposition’s representation in the legislatures, and it has seriously damaged the credibility of the new government to be formed in the coming weeks.

Nevertheless, the significance of the elections should not be underestimated. This paper provides an overview of the final election results, and discusses the implications for the functioning of the legislatures. While the regime-created Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) together with the armed forces have overwhelming control of the national legislatures and the legislatures in the Burman-majority regions, the picture is more complex in the ethnic-state legislatures.

The main focus of this paper is on the opportunities that may exist for improving the governance of ethnic areas. In this respect, the relative success of some ethnic parties must be set against the fact that several others were excluded from the elections, and that a dangerous confrontation continues between the government and several ceasefire groups.

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This joint BCN-TNI project aims to stimulate strategic thinking on addressing ethnic conflict in Burma and to give voice to ethnic nationalities groups who have until now been ignored and isolated in the international debate on the country. In order to respond on the challenges of 2010 and the future, BCN and TNI believe it is crucial to formulate practical and concrete policy options and define concrete benchmarks on progress that national and international actors can support. The project will aim to achieve greater support for a different Burma policy, which is pragmatic, engaged and grounded in reality.

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