Suu Kyi calls on people to respond to 'unjust' law

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YANGON, Mar 11 (AFP): Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday called on Myanmar's people to give a united response to an 'unjust' election law, her lawyer Nyan Win told AFP.
"The people and political forces have to respond united to such an unjust law," Suu Kyi said, according to Nyan Win, after he visited the democracy icon at her house. "She didn't think such a repressive law would come out."
Under new election legislation Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi faces exclusion from her own National League for Democracy (NLD) party and is not allowed to stand in elections this year on the grounds that she is a serving prisoner.
Meanwhile, Myanmar's ruling junta Thursday appointed an election commission to oversee this year's polls as international anger grew over new laws barring opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi from the vote.
The commission was set up under new legislation unveiled by the government on Monday and its 17 members are handpicked by the military regime, leading to criticism from rights groups that the body would not be impartial.
One of the commission's first tasks is expected to be the long-awaited announcement of a date for the country's first elections in two decades. Analysts say the most likely time in October or November.