The routing over the weekend of the forces of the small, Chinese-speaking Kokang ethnic group gives Myanmar's governing generals momentum in their campaign to quell armed opposition before elections and the adoption of a new Constitution next year.
The administrative court sought to suspend the elections mainly because of a procedural issue: it found that the date had wrongly been set by an independent electoral commission instead of by the governing generals themselves.
(Indeed, it could be argued that the governing generals in Egypt Cairoro's They — have simply regrouped after seeming to bend to the popular will in the ouster of Hosni Mubarak).
Myanmar's governing generals vowed in September, after the international outcry over the crackdown, to increase dialogue and consultations with Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, but no overtures have been reported in recent weeks and reconciliation between pro-democracy forces and the government appears to have stalled.
Though the Syrian government said it had formed a commission Wednesday to draft a new law to govern general elections, critics called it a largely cosmetic step by a government in survival mode, hewing to its own logic that it must provide an exit from the crisis to sustain its support among minorities, the middle class and the business elite.
The law sought to block senior Mubarak officials from running, and the governing generals signed it.
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But will General Oviedo let Mr Cubas govern?The general has said he aims at the chairmanship of the Colorado Party next May, and the national presidency in 2003.
THE TIMETABLE -- After the loya jirga's selection, the new government, known as the Transitional Authority, will take office on June 22 and govern until general elections two years from now.
"Conduct was governed by general principles; but to enforce a rule of conduct, it was necessary to find a remedy in a specific writ," Mr. Stevens wrote.
