Aung San Suu Kyi wins a seat in the Burmese parliament. Is Myanmar's military junta more liberal than the U.S. government? After all, it's impossible to imagine a political prisoner here being elected to Congress.
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Aung San Suu Kyi; Burma; Myanmar; democracy; parliamentary elections; SLORC; junta; human rights; electoral politics; political hypocrisy; secret prisons; human rights; Gitmo; Guantanamo; concentration camps; torture; CIA; Disneyworld