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Monday, February 25, 2008

People are not befooled by election talk

People are not befooled by election-talk

NM Harun

The question now is simply of choosing either of the two paths – either (a) following in the footsteps of Thailand and Pakistan, have faith in and respect for the people and try to repair the political process through the holding of the stalled elections to the ninth parliament sooner rather than later or (b) perpetuate the authoritarianism, as Burma has done, in the bureaucratic arrogance of superiority over the people with the dire prospect of facing, unlike in Burma but as in the past in our country, popular protest, unrest and resistance to military-driven political engineering..............................

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