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Write a letter to 9 Foreign Ministers from Myanmar’s neighbouring countries

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When Myanmar's Not Free, None Of Us Are Free Myanmar is about to hold its first national election in two decades. In the last elections in 1990, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a resounding victory — only for the military government to ignore the results and arrest scores of opposition activists who threatened their grip on power. We cannot let this happen again Many of Myanmar's 50 million people live in poverty. And those who express views contrary to that of the ruling authorities face harassment, arrest, torture, imprisonment and, sometimes, execution. Many are held in solitary confinement, denied access to medical care and cut off from their families and loved ones. More than 2,200 political prisoners are behind bar