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Tom Kramer warns 'not all is well after Burmese elections' (Dutch)

13 April 2012

Minka Nijhuis

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De oppositie in Burma behaalde op 1 april een klinkende verkiezingsoverwinning. De verwachtingen zijn hoog gespannen. Te hoog?

"Ook Tom Kramer, Burma-deskundige van de denktank Transnational Institute (TNI), voorziet de monsterzege van kritische noten. De regerende partij, de Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) die gesteund wordt door het leger, moet zich veel zorgen maken over haar voortbestaan in de aanloop naar de algemene verkiezingen van 2015. De USDP wist slechts één zetel te bemachtigen. "Ook degenen die hervormingen doorvoerden leden een verpletterende nederlaag. Het is nu nog maar de vraag of in 2015 vrije en eerlijke verkiezingen zullen worden toegestaan", zegt Kramer."

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