Today is one of the Greatest Days and the Happiest Day of MY LIFE!!!!!!!!
This is the day that I have been dreaming for and fighting for all these years......
This is the day that makes me feel that all those tears, heartaches and sacrifices that I have endured all along have been all worth it.....
This is the day that makes me realize all the campaigns that I have gone to, all the events that I have organized and have participated in, all the words that I have shouted of my lungs out at demonstrations, all the awareness that I have tried to raise, have been all paid of.
This is the day that gives me hope that all these years of living in fear of being punished for speaking out and standing for what's right...will soon be over.
Our party (National League for Democracy - NLD) and our Beloved Leader Aung San Suu Kyi have won the landslide victory in Burma's Election!!!! Winning 44 seats out of 45 in Parliament!!!!!
Everyone is cheering on the streets of Burma, in front of Aung San Suu Kyi's house and everywhere you could see; all full with heartfelt emotions.....and joyful tears......
The boisterous, joyful scenes outside the headquarters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) throughout the evening of April 1st said it all: Burma's main opposition party looks to be on course for a big victory, a landslide even, in the country's historic by-elections. Every ten minutes or so news of yet another extraordinary result would be posted up on a giant digital screen facing the street, provoking even more ecstatic cheering from the huge crowd gathered outside. These are intoxicating scenes in a country that just over a year ago was a quiet, fearful military dictatorship.
The NLD had been contesting 44 of the 45 seats on offer in the federal parliament in Naypyidaw, the first elections it had taken part in since 1990. After such a long absence from the polls, nobody was really sure how the elections would go (the NLD boycotted the last general election two years ago). But although official results will not be known for a few days, it is already fairly obvious that the proxy-party of the ruling military government, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), has been humiliated.
Take Aung San Suu Kyi herself. The NLD leader stood for a seat, Kawhmu township, just outside Yangon, where the party claims that she got 99% of the vote and won at 128 out of 129 polling booths.
NLD officials were also claiming last night that they had won all 11 seats where all the votes had been counted—the polls shut at 4pm. And in five of those seats, they had won 90% of the vote. On these sorts of projections the NLD could well win all 44 seats it fought, or at least 40, ahead even of its more optimistic forecasts. NLD leaders I spoke with last week had been hoping to win about two-thirds of the seats.
Significantly, the NLD even claimed to be winning in government strongholds such as Naypyidaw, the gilded cage of a purpose-built capital five hours' drive north of Yangon. Here four seats were being contested, and probably over half of the voters were directly employed by the USDP government. They had also been promised extra goodies to vote for the USDP. Even in Naypyidaw the NLD claims to have won three seats, and one party official tabulating results said late on April 1st that the NLD had won all four. If true, that would really deal a body-blow to any remaining claims to legitimacy by the USDP government.
I sincerely want to thank all the friends, family and the co-activists who have stood with me and helped me held my head high in the darkest times....... I would have not made it without you all..... Thank you so so much......
