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PDFThis observer thinks so, in an interesting analysis that also touches on the strategic debate within the National League for Democracy on the merits of boycotting or participating in the forthcoming election:
Htet Aung of Irrawaddy magazine, writing in Asia Sentinel, suggested the NLD had made a “strategic error” in refusing to comply with new electoral rules, arguing that it could have forced change from within the new approved parliamentary structure. But analyst Frida Ghitis, writing in World Politics Review, said the junta had set a trap for NLD. Its decision to pull out marked “another defeat” for Obama’s policy of engaging with rogue regimes, she said.
