Military backed parties set to sweep elections; US President Obama calls Myanmar elections “anything but free and fair”; Junta supported USDP lead in early results; Germany supports China on UN Enquiry issue
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  • Burma held its first election in 20 years under tight security on November 7 with a scripted vote that assured army-backed parties an easy win. Both European Union and the United States have slammed the elections in Myanmar.1 "There are elections that are being held right now in [Burma] that will be anything but free and fair, based on every report that we are seeing," US President Barack Obama told students in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai during his India visit.2

    Meanwhile, reports noted that more than 70 percent of the first 57 parliamentarians have been elected in elections, belong to the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).3 Meanwhile the German Foreign Ministry has said that it does not support the proposed UN commission of inquiry to investigate war crimes and human rights violations in Burma.4

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