Description:
"The Tatmadaw in Burma have control of executive, legislative and judicial power and the Parliament has not met since before the
Tatmadaw seized power by military coup d? etat on the 18th September 1988, installing the State Law and Order Restoration
Council (SLORC), predecessor of the present State and Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The SPDC is the creature of
the Tatmadaw (Burma?s Armed Forces), as was the Tatmadaw's Burmese Socialists Program Party's (BSPP) Revolutionary
Council that ruled Burma for many years up until 1988. For functional purposes they are one and the same group, in essence a
military junta exercising the power of dictatorship..."
Source/publisher:
Legal Issues on Burma Journal No. 7 (Burma Lawyers' Council)
Date of Publication:
2000-12-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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Language:
English
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