Burma resumes drafting constitution

Hundreds of delegates from across Burma gathered today to draw up a new constitution which the ruling junta says will – at some unspecified point in the far future – pave the way for the first democratically elected government in more than four decades.

But critics say the convention cannot reflect the desires of the people when the head of the main opposition party, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been barred from participating.