The Burmese military junta said on March 28 that it had dissolved 40 political parties, including the party led by deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ahead of an election the junta intends to hold later this year.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party and the other 39 parties were dissolved because they failed to register as political parties by the deadline on Tuesday, the junta’s Ministry of Information said in a notice.
The ministry stated that 63 political parties have registered at local and national levels.
NLD official Tun Myint said the party will not register for the election while many of its members, including Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, are still imprisoned or “involved in the revolution.”…