Democracy in Myanmar
• November 8, 2015, Myanmar held its first elections in 25 years. After five decades of brutal military rule, the opposition, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), won a landslide victory in elections that most
observers declared free and relatively fair.
• Will the generals peacefully give up their central role
in Myanmar’s government and that the country can make a historic transition to democracy?