National League for Democracy
The National League for Democracy (NLD; burmese အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်, English National League for Democracy ) is a political party in Myanmar and was the leading opposition party against the country's military junta. It was founded after the violent crackdown on popular uprisings of August 8, 1988 and the military coup led by General Saw Maung on 27 September of the same year.
In the parliamentary elections in 1990, the NLD won 406 of 489 seats, but the military junta refused to hand over power under the pretext that before the meeting of the newly elected Parliament, a new constitution was first to work out.
U Aung Shwe the party presidency holds, one diplomat, who was in the Ne Win era 1961-1975 ambassador in different countries. Vice Chairman U Tin Oo ( born March 12, 1927 in Pathein ), a former general and defense minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Myanmar of 1974 until 1976. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is the general secretary of the party.
The NLD provides members of the acting in exile organizations Committee Representing People's Parliament ( CRPP ) and the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma ( NCGUB ).
In 2001, the military junta allowed under great propaganda for the reopening of NLD offices across the country. Given the still unbroken popularity of the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi, they were closed down to the office in the capital Rangoon again after the raid in May 2003, however. During the course change, which found its climax in the dethroning of the ready to dialogue with the opposition, Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt, the harassment of the NLD were tightened. Before the parliamentary elections in November 2010, the party leadership was forced by the military junta that ruled their former top candidate Aung San Suu Kyi. Therefore, the NLD called for a boycott of the elections.
A grouping of similar name is the National League for Democracy - Liberated Area (NLD -LA). She is an independent splinter group, the military acts against the Myanmar army in the border areas with Thailand. In Western media, it is also called the Democratic Party and participated in the elections.
On 14 September 2010, the party was dissolved by the State Election Commission, after the former had renounced a new registration for the upcoming elections. Some of their members to boycott the 2010 elections resisted, founded the Party National Democratic Force (NDF), which participated in the elections despite all the repression by the junta. The largely steered elections brought the two opposition parties, which hardly could provide 10% of the 3,100 candidates and the elections criticized as fraudulent, but only moderate success. Of the 330 elected members of both chambers, they won 30-40, but this was not broken down in the ( Chinese ) messages. A deputy of the not yet formally legalized again NLD but also sits in Parliament.
Prior to the elections of 2012, the NLD had re-register, their re-admission was on December 13, 2011, by the State Election Commission. Previously had been released Aung San Suu Kyi by the reform-minded President Thein Sein from her years of house arrest.