![]() ![]() When an anti-regime party led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won by a landside, however, the generals rejected the results, put Suu Kyi under house arrest for most of two decades, and continued to exploit the country's abundant resources for their own benefit while depriving citizens of basic services. A popular uprising in 1988 was brutally suppressed, but it forced the generals to hold an election in 1990. Two military dictators have ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for nearly fifty years. That transition, together with a recent change in U.S. The grossly misruled nation -officially known as Myanmar -is in the midst of a political transition based on a new constitution and its first multiparty elections in twenty years. In the years since, however, it has dropped to the bottom of the world's socioeconomic ladder. Burma had the brightest prospects of any Southeast Asian nation after World War II.
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