Burma: the military dissolves the party of San Suu Kyi

 The coup military junta in power since February 2021 in Burma has officially dissolved the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of imprisoned democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

This was reported by the Burmese state media.

The "automatic dissolution as a political party" of the NLD - according to the broadcaster Mrtv - was communicated by the electoral committee with effect from today, on the basis of the new electoral law passed by the military junta.

Which last January, in view of possible elections promised and then postponed, gave political parties two months to register according to new rules, to which the NLD has not submitted.

According to the opposition, the elections promised by the regime will be neither free nor fair

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The NLD, of which Aung San Suu Kyi became leader and which she led during the ten years of democracy that followed almost 50 years of military dictatorship, won the Burmese general elections by landslide in both 2015 and 2020. The military justified the coup by state of February 1, 2021 with alleged and never proven "electoral fraud", and thus put an end to the decade of democracy and socio-economic progress.

Last month, after postponing the elections it had promised for August, the junta extended by another six months the state of emergency,

in which at least 3,100 people have been killed and another 20,000 arrested in the crackdown, according to local groups who they monitor the situation