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Along the way, banners proclaimed "We're All in This Together!" while music blared from loudspeakers with homespun lyrics that screamed: Myanmar "will prosper only after Daw Suu wins the race." "Daw" is an honorific of respect used for older women. At a youth meeting Thursday, Suu Kyi told party members that "even one seat is important." A victory would be historic for Suu Kyi, who spent most of the last two decades under house arrest. She would have a voice in government for the first time after decades as the country's opposition leader. In 1990, while she was still under house arrest, her party won a sweeping election victory but the then-ruling military junta refused to honor the results. The government hopes the reforms it has enacted since last year's election
-- including the freeing of hundreds of political prisoners -- will prompt the lifting of economic sanctions imposed under the junta's rule. Western governments and the United Nations have said they will review the sanctions only after gauging whether the April polls are carried out freely and fairly.
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