Analysis: Suu Kyi's party seeks makeover to grab Myanmar's youth

With his walking stick, long white hair and thick spectacles from a bygone age buy monster beats, Win Tin embodies the challenge facing the party that has led the campaign for democracy in Myanmar but now needs new blood to secure its future.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi boycotted what it saw as flawed elections in 2010 that signaled the end of half a century of military rule in the former Burma but it will contest by-elections in April.

Suu Kyi's stature alone should ensure it gains a presence in parliament but the party can only live off its role in the fight for democracy for so long cheap beats by dre. It badly needs to develop policies and then win over voters who come of age in the new parliamentary era.

Win Tin has a mind as sharp as when he was a journalist challenging the brutal army dictatorship, which earned him 19 years in jail monster outlet, but the longtime aide to Suu Kyi is 82 years old and many other NLD leaders aren't much younger.

"Our party is too old," Win Tin told Reuters, perched on the edge of his chair and leaning on a walking cane for support. "No one has suffered oppression like us dre beats outlet, but after serving so long in prison, we've been rather disconnected."

"We have youth leaders who are over 50 -- one is even a grandfather. But now that there's an opening, our party needs new life beats by dre sale, new faces, new blood if we want to survive and make a difference. It's time for us to make way for a new force."

Suu Kyi has taken the leap of faith needed to commit her party to a political system still controlled by the army and its proxies in parliament, a move welcomed by Western countries cautiously renewing ties with the nominally civilian government.