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Suu Kyi. However, that great success does not mean that the country
is now fully democratic. While the people choose 75% of the deputies
who will now enter parliament, the remaining 25% are appointed by
the military. It therefore appears impossible for the leading party in
Parliament to be able to get laws through Parliament or introduce
reforms. It can be seen that every step toward renewal will be vetoed
by the military.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a leader who in fact emerged victorious from

the 1990 elections. Despite obtaining an 80% majority in Parliament,
the junta refused to recognize the election results and sentenced Suu
Kyi to house imprisonment. She spent 15 years imprisoned, until 2010.

Although the junta has now in theory come to an end, there are
still worries that Suu Kyi's success will again be met by a coup.
Although Thein Sein, who took over from the junta regime in 2010, says,
"We must accept our voters' desire," many analysts still think that the
military will hold Sein's moderate views responsible for this unexpected
outcome and will make their displeasure felt. 69

But what do these results mean for the people of Rohingya?

Let us go back to before the elections. Following the clashes that
broke out in 2012 and ended in the deaths of hundreds of Rohingya
people in the country, many Rohingya Muslims were forced from their
homes and workplaces and taken into refugee camps. The Myanmar
government prevented them from moving within the country and

receiving services such as health and education. At the beginning of
the year the government revoked their identity documents, alleging that
the Muslim minority were not Myanmar citizens. The Rohingya Mus-
lims were therefore unable to stand or vote on this year's November
elections. As a result, for the first time, there are no Muslims in the
Myanmar Parliament.

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