BURMA BULLETIN
Issue 106 - October 2015

KEY STORY: ELECTIONS 2015
• EC backtracks on delaying vote
• Polling cancellations spike in 2015
• Conflict destabilizes campaigns
• State-backed groups threaten voters
• NLD staff target of violence
• Police arrest activists, candidate
• USDP-Ma Ba Tha ties strengthen
• Controversial campaign tactics
• Suu Kyi plans 2016 leadership, USDP endorses Thein Sein
• Overseas vote misses millions
• Domestic concern on advance vote
• Election observers deployed
• 40,000 special police trained
INSIDE BURMA
• Incomplete ‘Nationwide’ ceasefire signed
• Tatmadaw retaliates against NCA non-signatories
• Civilian abuse
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Facebook crackdown
• Letpadan report
• Paunglaung dam violations: report
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• UNSR statement to UNGA
ECONOMY
• CBM revokes forex licenses
• Minimum wage disputes
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