Thein Sein

Burma’s military-backed ruling party appeared set Tuesday for an overwhelming electoral defeat, but a victory by Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD party would not mean the end of military involvement in the nation’s politics. Far from it.

The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed victory Monday in virtually every seat in four states where results of Burma’s historic parliamentary election were known.

The latest on landmark elections in Burma.

Though championed worldwide as a pro-democracy icon, there is something Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to do until Sunday: vote.

With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Burma’s historic general election that will test whether the military’s long-standing grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party expected to secure an easy victory.

Burma’s president says his government and the military, which gave up power only five years ago, will respect the results of Sunday’s elections that are expected to be won by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party.

Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that she will be the true power above the country’s president if her party wins historic elections this Sunday

Burma’s President Thein Sein said over the weekend that if opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi were elected president in 2015, he would accept it.

A state of emergency was declared in Burma’s Rakhine State (also spelled Arakan State) amid escalating sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the Burmese opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, said on Monday that her party is ending its dispute over the parliamentary oath and will join the legislature on Wednesday.

After decades of oppressive military rule, and being shut out of aid money because of it, Burma is starting to see a shift in donor attitudes in the wake of recent political reforms.