Rangoon - Ten years after seizing power by bloodily suppressing a pro-democracy uprising, Burma's ruling military accused the opposition yesterday of using a declaration of a de facto parliament to provoke harsh counter-measures.
The National League for Democracy of the Nobel Peace laureate, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, said on Thursday that a 10-person committee it formed this week would act on behalf of a parliament elected in 1990 but never allowed to convene.
In what analysts called a largely symbolic but well-timed challenge, the panel named a chairman of parliament and declared laws introduced in 1988 illegal unless approved by the body.