Myanmar's Turn?

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is undergoing its most significant political change since military rule began in 1962. Thein Sein, the country's new president, has surprised the world with a series of democratic reforms. He has opened Myanmar to the western world, released hundreds of political prisoners and eased media censorship. Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, has spent the past month campaigning openly in the country's by-election and expectations among the people are the highest they have been in a lifetime. Aung San Suu Kyi's NDL party won an over whelming victory in the only open free and fair election ever held in Mynamar in 1990 but were never allowed to take power as the ruling military junta nullified the election. Many of her supporters were imprisoned while she spent almost 20 years under house arrest.