Fifteen Million Letters To Santa And Not A Single One For You

Underground Resistance - 303 Sunset
(off 'Nation 2 Nation' EP)
that ol' discogs.thing
buy it off Submerge

The Union of Burma officially changed its name to the Union of Myanmar in 1989. It became an independent republic outside the British Commonwealth on 4 January 1948 and remained a parliamentary democracy for 14 years. In 1962 the army took power, suspended the parliamentary constitution and instituted a socialist state. After months of popular demonstrations and a series of presidents during 1988, Gen. Saw Maung, leader of the armed forces, assumed power in September 1988. The People's Assembly, the Council of State and the Council of Ministers were abolished and replaced by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). The constitution was effectively abrogated. A People's Assembly Election Law was published in 1989 and multiparty elections were held on 27 May 1990, resulting in a majority for the National League for Democracy (NLD) even though its leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been under house arrest since July 1989. The SLORC refused to transfer power to a civilian government and large numbers of NLD MPs and supporters were detained or fled to Thailand where an exile government was set up. However, following the replacement of Saw Maung by Than Shwe as SLORC chairman and prime minister in April 1992, the government began a dialogue with some elements of the opposition. A Constitutional Convention appointed by the SLORC to discuss a future constitution convened in January 1993 and has continued fitfully since, but with minimal progress. The SLORC released Aung San Suu Kyi (who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991) on 10 July 1995, although on several occasions subsequently she has been forcibly prevented from attending political meetings by government troops. Many other opposition figures remain in detention or under house arrest. In November 1997, the SLORC was renamed the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The SPDC detained several hundred NLD members in September 1998 to thwart the NLD's plan to convene a 'People's Parliament' representing the assembly which would have resulted from the 1990 general election; most were released in October and November. Instead, the NLD set up an interim representation committee to act on behalf of the 'People's Parliament', which declared all laws and orders issued by the military government since the general election to be invalid.