Government Campaigns
 Feb 2010 The junta-backed civilian organization Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), before transforming into a political party, began constructing roads in Rangoon’s Bo Sein Man area with large signboards advertising their work
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To garner community and public support for the upcoming elections, the government has carried out a variety of campaigns. These include the following:
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| Date | Activity | Details of the event |
| 2010.11.06 | Commemoration | Myanma Posts and Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs will sell a new stamp worth K 500 in commemoration of the 2010 multiparty democracy general election at State/Region/District/ Township post offices beginning Nov 7th. |
| 2010.11.02 |
Newspapers |
The state-run daily New Light of Myanmar urged every citizen in the country to participate in the building of a new nation by "making correct choices in the forthcoming election," |
| 2010.10.12 | State TV | State-run Televension will soon broadcast 11 election songs. Those songs are written by U Maung Maung Aye who is the manager of "Ah Lin Kar Woot Yee Music group". “The songs are about election... Citizens have responsibility and voting in 2010 election means acting in accordance with democracy principles...". |
| 2010.09.28 | Community Leaders | Karenni voters are being asked for money for the election fund by the Loikaw Peace and Development Council Chairman after village chiefs and their assistants were summoned to the township office in Loikaw capital of Karenni state in early September |
| 2010.09.24 | Community Leaders | the regime’s newly appointed Northern Regional Commander Brig-Gen Zeyar Aung held a meeting with Christian church leaders at St. Columban’s Catholic Cathedral in Aung Nan Yint Ta in Myitkyina the capital of Kachin State to woo Christian leaders |
| 2010.08.10 | Donations | The Burmese Army based in Paletwa town, Chin state is distributing free salt to people to woo them for votes in the forthcoming 2010 general election |
| 2010.05.02 | Campaign Tour | Ministry of Defence officials urged residents of Falam township, Chin State at a town hall meeting, to co-operate with the military for a “successful general election”. The meeting was between a team of high ranking military officers, including Bureau of Special Operations (BSO) Commander Lieutenant General Ohn Myint and Sagaing Division Commander Major General Myint Soe, and a gathering of local government staff and about 1,400 townspeople. The military team promised they would tackle the water shortages and power outages plaguing the town |
| 2010.04.19 | Donations | The Township Peace Development Chairman (TPDC) in Maungdaw Township for the first time attended a meeting of the leaders of the Rohingya madrassah (Koran-based schools) in Alel Than Kyaw in northern Arakan State to raise funds for the schools. |
| 2010.04.18 | Community Leaders | Aung Kyaw Oo, chairman of the Butheetaung Township Peace and Development Council, called six Muslim community leaders to his office and asked them to mobilise Muslims to vote for the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) |
| 2010.04.01 | Donations | Ministry of Defence team led by Ohn Myint visited Chin State capital Hakha to promote the elections. He inspected government offices, donated books to the education department and gave 10 blankets to some of the city’s poorest people. |
| 2010.03.24 | Campaign Tour | Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, Joint Chief of Staff of Operations of the Burmese junta visited Kachin State visited Northern Command in Myitkyina, Kachin State |
| 2010.03.08 | Campaign Tour | The Prime Minister Thein sein visited Muse on the Sino-Burmese border and said to support the forthcoming election at the meeting in Nang Kham township in northern Shan State today while the meeting was attending by government civic servant from Nang Kham and USDA members. |
| 2010.02.16 | Donations | Rangoon mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin told local media that the USDA will be spending more than 12 billion kyat (US $12 million) on activities to support the public, including paving roads, pipe-laying for waterworks, and opening free health care clinics and free funeral service agencies. Insein Government Technical Institute is now being rebuilt as a USDA-financed public hospital. Insein Government Technical Institute is now being rebuilt as a USDA-financed public hospital. The USDA are also providing free tuition to high school students |
| 2009.12.21-31 | Community Leaders | Burmese military authorities have tasked two Muslim businessmen from Rangoon to mobilize the Muslim community in Maungdaw Township in the Rakhine State to support the National Unity Party (NUP) in the forthcoming 2010 election |
| 2009.12 | Community Training | While conducting volunteer fire fighting training programmes, the Burmese military regime has included instruction on the 2008 constitution to the trainees of the fire department in Kalemyo District, Sagaing Division in Western Burma. The trainers told them to campaign for government candidates among civilians for the forthcoming 2010 general elections, and instructed them on the election chapter in the 2008 constitution. |
| 2009.11.14 | Community Training | The Tactical Operation Commander (TOC) stationed in Buthidaung Town has ordered the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) Chairmen of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships to send 15 youths from each village to the concerned Na-sa-ka area for ‘Fire Service’ training by 20 November. Training also covered the 2010 election on how to get support from local |
| 2009.11.13-15 | Campaign Tour | Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity visited Tidim town and Tawnzang town in Chin State on a campaign tour. The Minister arrived and met departmental staff members, representatives of the Union Solidarity Development Association, Women’s Association and about 100 parents in a high school hall in Tawnzang town. He addressed them regarding the election, and urged the local populace to cast votes for the candidates of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and beware of enemies of the state. |
| 2009.11.07 | Campaign Tour | Second commander of LIB 309 Myat Soe had campaigned in Kalemyo and Tamu Township where he met representatives of the Union Solidarity Development Association, Women’s Association, volunteer firemen and local parents. |
| 2009.11 | Community Training | Infantry Battalion No. 62 has recruited residents from the various quarters of Thanphyuzayart town as well as inhabitants from several nearby villages into local militia-run fire brigades. |
| 2009.11 | CampaignTour | The Maungdaw Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) Chairman instructed Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) members of Maungdaw Township to begin campaigning for the forthcoming elections. This follows a recent visit to Rakhine State by Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry of Defense from Napyidaw, during which the TPDC Chairman and authorities concerned were given direct orders to implement the campaign and make preparations for the 2010 Elections. |
| 2009.05.18-19 | Donations | The Burmese military government is linking free medical treatment for rural people to 2010 election politics, according to sources in Mandalay and Sagaing divisions. |