A special appeals court in army-ruled Myanmar has rejected a move by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to have her political party reinstated after it was dissolved for boycotting last year's election. The Special Appellant Court in Naypyitaw ruled that the National League for Democracy (NLD), whose 1990 election victory was ignored by the military junta, will remain an “unlawful association” for its failure to register for the November 7 poll. The decision leaves Myanmar’s biggest opposition force on the sidelines of a new, army-dominated political system and raises questions about the hugely popular Nobel laureate's ability to initiate any change in the former British colony, despite her release on November 13 from a seven-year stint of detention. The NLD shunned the election because of what it said were “unfair and unjust” rules that prohibited hundreds of its detained members from running for seats in a Parliament due to hold its first session on Monday.