September 21, 2010 4:56 PM

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Suu Kyi barred from voting

Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not be allowed to vote in the military-ruled country's first election in two decades. An official in Bahan Township where the Nobel Peace laureate lives under house arrest in her lakeside mansion said Aung San Suu Kyi's name does not appear on the voting list. Her exclusion was expected because under Myanmar's 2008 constitution serving prisoners have no right to vote. Another official said Suu Kyi will not have the right to vote as she is under detention. The opposition leader's current term of detention is due to expire just days after the November election. The democracy icon's National League for Democracy announced it was boycotting the polls, saying the rules were unfair, and has subsequently been disbanded by the ruling generals.

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