As for the countries like Lebanon and Iraq that are plagued with sectarian and religious divides, Mr. Baram is another believer that carefully designed forms of democracy will be able to work there.
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Concerns also remain over whether the nascent democracy will be able to sustain itself, given a background where the judiciary and military are said to function under heavy political influence.
"Democracy will not be terrorized," he said on Monday.
Political organisations like the Peace and Democracy party will be able to receive state funding, and the eight-decade long ban on Kurdish letters (q, w and x) will be abolished.
Polls released this week showed the radical left anti-austerity Syriza party still in the ascendant, and analysts have expressed doubts that the incumbent New Democracy party will be able to overturn its lead.
Now that Saddam is gone, we have to hope "that a new generation will grow up with enough rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and democracy that it will be able to overcome the culture of brutality that Saddam instilled," said Joseph Sassoon, the Baghdad-born author of "Iraqi Refugees" and an adjunct professor at Georgetown.
They are working hard to keep the fragile balance of our democracy so that hopefully we will be able to vote freely and fairly when the next election comes around.
And maybe that's true too; maybe this win by the pro-democracy crowd is actually a loss for future democracy - because the rulers in Beijing will be able to say: see, you let them vote and they vote against you, better not let them vote in the first place.
She emphasized that if India also isolates Burma, no one will be able to engage Rangoon on democracy or other issues.
