I wanted to read the article, so I could figure out wtf the headline is referring to, but BBC is blocked here.

So, instead, I'll just say...

If Obama owned a cologne company, it would be called Bar'Bama Shave.

Yay Democracy..

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Burmese junta sets voting dates

Burma will hold a constitutional referendum in May and general elections in 2010, the country's military junta has announced on state media.

The regime had set out what it called a roadmap for democracy but had not previously given any firm timetable.

The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) called the announcement "vague, incomplete and strange".

Burma, under military rule since 1962, saw rare nationwide protests against the junta in August and September.

The military responded with a deadly crackdown in which at least 31 people were killed, according to the UN.

Saturday's statement from the military leadership, broadcast on radio and television, announced: "Multi-party democratic elections will be held in 2010, according to the new constitution.

"It is suitable to change the military administration to a democratic, civil administrative system, as good fundamentals have been established.

"The country's basic infrastructure has been built, although there is still more to do in striving for the welfare of the nation."

NLD spokesman Nyan Win expressed surprise that the election had been planned before the results of the constitutional referendum were known.

"According to my understanding, the election date should be set up after the referendum results. I was surprised that they announced an election date without knowing the referendum results," he told the BBC.

The proposed constitutional changes have not been made public, but some suspect that they would in effect bar NLD leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi from office and perhaps ensure that a military leader was chosen.

Election results ignored

Burma held a multi-party election in 1990, two years after thousands were killed in a crackdown on popular demonstrations.

The NLD won the poll, but the military ignored the result and Ms Suu Kyi has spent 12 of the last 18 years under house arrest in Burma's commercial capital, Rangoon.

Instead, the military formed a convention in 1993 that spent the next 14 years setting out guidelines for a new constitution.

Saturday's statement said the constitution, which is now being drafted by a government-appointed commission, would be finished soon.

The military's roadmap for democracy has been widely dismissed as a sham by observers.

Late last month, Ms Suu Kyi said she was not satisfied by recent talks with military rulers, expressing concern that the meetings might raise false hopes of political reform.

She repeated demands that the talks must involve pro-democracy groups and representatives of Burma's ethnic groups.

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Thanks.

I never had any intention of visiting Burma. This just confirms that my gut instinct is right every once in a while.

/Gut didn't help me before that time I was hauled to the Tijuana jail

damn italics. I even previewed.

/Shouldn't tilt my head to the side when posting.

Beautiful headline!

Myanmar Shave

The Myanmar government needs a good kick in the Junta.

moops: Myanmar Shave

Ha!

Why the hell does it take 14 years to write a document? I mean, even JK Rowling doesn't take fourteen years to write a book, and she also writes tales that nobody believes in to reassure and entertain young children.

Absolutely brilliant headline! Burma Shave! Hah! "Shave"!

Raise their ire


And soldiers fire


Death toll climbing


Ever higher


Burma grave

Great headline.

+1 fer subby
LOLs I crave
LMAO
At "Burma Shave"

On topic?

The proposed constitutional changes have not been made public, but some suspect that they would in effect bar NLD leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi from office and perhaps ensure that a military leader was chosen

Aung Sang Suu Kyi is Burma's Nelson Mandela. She should be the democratically elected leader of the country but instead she is under house arrest. Any subsequent election that does not include Ms Kyi will be viewed by the rest of the world as a fraud and whatever government gets installed it should not be recognised as legitimate by anyone.

Also, since you can't really say it in Burma...

Fark the Burmese military with a pungi stick until the evil little bastards bleed out!!

/Phew, feel muuuuch better now. Swearing at military regimes who torture their own citizenry is cathartic as all get out.

Submitter wins. I bow down to your headline-writing prowess.