Laws, decrees and legal commentary relating to the 1990 elections
Individual Documents
| Title: | | Convening the People's Assembly: A Legal Analysis |
| Date of publication: | | May 1999 |
| Description/subject: | | "According to Burma's two supposedly superseded constitutions, that of 1947 and 1974, the Pyithu Hluttaw (the People's
Assembly) is the body charged with exercising State power. The 1989 Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law (called the Election Law),
under which the 1990 elections were conducted, also provides that the duty of representatives elected in accordance with the
Election Law is to form the Pyithu Hluttaw (Section 3).
The ruling military junta, the people of Burma and the international community acknowledged without qualification that the May
1990 general election was free, fair and lawful. It then follows that those representatives elected by the people in the 1990
election have the lawful right to form a Pyithu Hluttaw that exercises legislative power and appoints a government in accordance
with the legal norms of Burma..." |
| Author/creator: | | Burma Lawyers' Council |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Legal Issues on Burma Journal No. 3 (Burma Lawyers' Council) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | SLORC Declaration No. 1/90 of July 27, 1990 |
| Date of publication: | | 27 July 1990 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | State Law and Order Restoration Council |
| Format/size: | | html (18K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law |
| Date of publication: | | 31 May 1989 |
| Description/subject: | | The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 14/89, 13th Waning Day of Kason, 1351 B.E., 31st May, 1989 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | State Law and Order Restoration Council |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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