Crushing victory: leading critic of junta jailed over a bill for eggs

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Burma's military government used its courts to stifle Aung Gyi, a former general who was the junta's last free critic. Aung Gyi was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison on Apr 27, 1993, ostensibly for failing to pay for eggs he had purchased but actually as means of silencing him. Aung Gyi, now aged 74, initially took part in strongman Ne Win's military regime after it seized power in 1962 but later helped start the 1987-88 pro-democracy movement. Since then he has angered the junta by denouncing it in open letters to Ne Win and in interviews with foreign journalists.

Dissenters, Aung Gyi

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Power play: junta moves to force acceptance of new constitution

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Burma's military regime is pressuring the country's two remaining opposition parties to accept a new constitution that will guarantee the army's political dominance. Leaders of the National League for Democracy and the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, both of which won many seats in May 1990 parliamentary elections, were chastised by junta generals for resisting the new constitution being prepared by the National Convention. Both groups are now too weak to defy the army's demands.

Constitutions, National League for Democracy (Myanmar)

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