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Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi

AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face i...

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar Court Accepts Suu Kyi Appeal

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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YANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar court agreed Friday to hear an appeal by detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the criminal conviction that...

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Senator Jim Webb In Burma To Meet Leader On Rare Visit

nytimes.com | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and SHARON OTTERMAN | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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An American senator arrived in Myanmar on Friday to meet with the leader of the junta there, just days after the country's pro-democracy leader, Daw A...

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UN Chief Visits Burma: A Political Gamble

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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Evelyn Leopold

With an agenda that asks the ruling military junta to open its doors to national "reconciliation", Ban Ki-moon is convinced he can persuade the country's leaders that reforms are for their own good.

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Twin-Track Talks in Burma Raise Peace Hopes

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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Russ Wellen

The junta hopes that by making a token attempt at democracy it can convince the West to ease the sanctions it's imposed on Burma and re-open economic relations.

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Karen Independence Movement: Seven Decades Of Futility? (Pt. 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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Russ Wellen

The Karens actually arrived in Burma before the Burmans, but in the sixteenth century, the Burmans conquered most of Burma and proceeded to impose their will on the ethnics.

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Burma Lawyers Risk Jail For Doing Job

Inter Press Service | By Marwaan Macan-Markar | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

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To be a lawyer in military-ruled Burma is to court danger, invite arrest and risk being jailed in the country's notorious prisons. It is the price...

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living

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Charlotte Hilton Andersen

I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

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Myanmar: Why You Won't Be Going There Anytime Soon

Richard Walden | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

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Richard Walden

The Generals in charge of Myanmar, isolated from world opinion as they may be, are intent on achieving "Failed State" status with or without a cyclone disaster.

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Myanmar Junta Continues To Arrest Scores Of People

Reuters | Aung Hla Tun | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Despite gradually easing its iron grip on Myanmar's main city on Thursday, the junta continued to round up scores of people and grill hundreds more ar...

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Junta Threatens Myanmar Monks

The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian MacKinnon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Burma's military rulers last night threatened to "take action' after up to 100,000 demonstrators protesting against the regime flooded the streets of ...

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Myanmar Buddhist Monks Spearhead Largest Protests Against Junta In Two Decades

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic...

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