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Junta Won't Postpone Sham Referendum

May 5, 2008 - 12:45pm

The military junta running Myanmar (formerly Burma) has been slow in responding to the death and devastation caused by a tropical cyclone over the weekend. But even with much of the country in ruins, the junta is going forward with a sham referendum this Saturday, May 10, on a new constitution that will enshrine the dictatorship there.