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  • May 2008

    • Burmese Junta Still Blocking Cyclone Aid

      Washington Post  |  May 9, 08 4:52 AM CDT

      Burmese Junta Still Blocking Cyclone Aid

      (Newser) - Emergency supplies for some 1.5 million Burmese desperately in need of help are ready to be flown into the cyclone-stricken regions—but the military junta is still blocking delivery. Only two UN planes have been allowed to land in Burma. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tried unsuccessfully to telephone Burma's top general to make a personal appeal to allow more relief supplies to get through, reports the Washington Post . More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • disease  • Cyclone Nargis  • junta  • Ban Ki-Moon  • hunger  • emergency aid  • World Food Program  • Irrawaddy Delta  • Save the Children

    • Cyclone Could Weaken Junta's Grip

      Christian Science Monitor  |  May 8, 08 9:35 AM CDT

      Cyclone Could Weaken Junta's Grip

      (Newser) - The devastation of cyclone Nargis could spur stronger opposition to Burma’s ruling junta, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “It could be quite catalytic, like the [2004] tsunami in Aceh,” says a regional aid director. The government, reluctant to allow outside aid, has struggled to cope with the disaster, and Saturday’s constitutional referendum may be an opportunity for Burmese to retaliate. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • cyclone  • junta  • referendum  • disaster recovery

    • Bush to Junta: Let the US Help

      VOA News  |  May 6, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      Bush to Junta: Let the US Help

      (Newser) - President Bush today expressed “heartfelt sympathy” to the victims of the Myanmar cyclone and called on the ruling junta to allow the US to offer more help, the Voice of America reports. The government has accepted $250,000 of US aid but balked at letting US Navy rescue teams assist in finding the 41,000 people who remain missing. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • democracy  • cyclone  • junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • military junta

  • February 2008

    • Burmese Rebel Leader Assassinated in Thailand

      Reuters  |  Feb 14, 08 11:51 AM CST

      Burmese Rebel Leader Assassinated in Thailand

      (Newser) - One of Myanmar's top rebel leaders was shot dead in his home in Thailand today, Reuters reports. Mahn Sha Lar Phan was the secretary-general of the Karen National Unit, the largest rebel group in the former Burma. His son, another senior leader, immediately blamed the attack on a splinter group allied with Burma's ruling junta. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Karen rebels

  • December 2007

    • Burmese Junta Downplays Protest Death Toll: Report

      CNN  |  Dec 7, 07 1:30 PM CST

      Burmese Junta Downplays Protest Death Toll: Report

      (Newser) - The quashing of pro-democracy demonstrations in September was significantly bloodier than the Burmese junta claims, says a Human Rights Watch report released today. Although the government acknowledges only 10 deaths during the suppression of the protests, 20 killings have been verified by eyewitnesses in Yangon alone, and the rights group projects a much higher total, CNN reports. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Burma protest  • Human Rights Watch

  • November 2007

    • UN Inspector Vows to Tally Burma's Dead

      Associated Press  |  Nov 11, 07 6:19 PM CST

      UN Inspector Vows to Tally Burma's Dead

      (Newser) - A UN inspector landed in Burma today to tally the junta's detained and dead protesters, the AP reports. And he vowed to leave if officials don't give him "full cooperation." So far, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has met with officials and visited a town where the junta targeted monks in its September crackdown. He also plans to visit prisons and detention centers in his first visit to Burma in four years. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • human rights  • junta  • Ibrahim Gambari

    • Suu Kyi: 'I Stand Ready to Cooperate'

      Associated Press  |  Nov 8, 07 12:07 PM CST

      Suu Kyi: 'I Stand Ready to Cooperate'

      (Newser) - Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Burma's military rulers, UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari announced today, reading a statement from the long-imprisoned opposition leader. “I stand ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success,” she wrote after the government said it would allow her a rare meeting with her party. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • Ibrahim Gambari

  • October 2007

    • Burma Nabs Top Dissidents

      BBC  |  Oct 13, 07 10:02 AM CDT

      Burma Nabs Top Dissidents

      (Newser) - Myanmar’s rulers have arrested just about every major dissident at large, the BBC reports. The junta rounded up three more prominent figures, among them Htay Kywe, who had been in hiding. He was a leader not only of the recent protests but of the 1988 uprising as well. Amnesty International expressed “fear that they risk torture and ill treatment.” More »

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      Burma  • protests  • Myanmar  • junta  • Rangoon  • dissidents

    • Myanmar Junta: 'You Are No Longer Monks'

      Reuters  |  Oct 11, 07 12:09 PM CDT

      Myanmar Junta: 'You Are No Longer Monks'

      (Newser) - Buddhist monks rounded up in protests in Myanmar faced torturous conditions, a recent detainee told Reuters. During days of interrogation, monks were beaten and denied medical treatment, water, and toilets. Prisoners were stripped of their iconic robes. “You are no longer a monk,” a guard told the prisoner, slapping him. “You are just an ordinary man with a shaven head.” More »

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      Burma  • torture  • Myanmar  • junta  • Buddhist monks  • prisoners  • Burma protest

    • First Lady to Junta: Free Burma

      Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 10, 07 12:23 PM CDT

      First Lady to Junta: Free Burma

      (Newser) - The recent violent crackdown on peaceful protests in Burma have left the military regime friendless in the international community and reviled by its people, Laura Bush writes in the Wall Street Journal . The junta “must immediately stop their terror campaigns against their own people,” she writes, and then step down, making way for “a unified Burma governed by legitimate leaders.” More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • Laura Bush

    • Priest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes

      BBC  |  Oct 10, 07 9:03 AM CDT

      Priest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes

      (Newser) - A former Roman Catholic priest  who delivered dozens of Argentines to the former military junta was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Christian von Wernich, 69, passed his parishioners’ confessions to police during the so-called "Dirty War,"  leading to 7 murders, 42 abductions and 31 cases of torture, according to the BBC. Survivors say he watched torture sessions, absolving police of blame. More »

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      Catholic Church  • junta  • Argentina  • Dirty War

    • Suu Kyi Rejects Conditions, Won't Meet Junta

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 9, 07 1:19 PM CDT

      Suu Kyi Rejects Conditions, Won't Meet Junta

      (Newser) - Aung San Suu Kyi will not meet with Burma's ruling junta, which insists that she soften her anti-regime position as a condition of scheduling talks. The opposition leader said in a statement today she will accept no conditions, the Guardian reports: “The success of a dialogue is based on sincerity and the spirit of give and take.” More »

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      China  • Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • UN sanctions  • Than Shwe

    • Junta Cremates Protesters

      Times (UK)  |  Oct 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT

      Junta Cremates Protesters

      (Newser) - Burma's army is burning the bodies of activists in secret cremations, hiding their true death count forever, the Sunday Times reports. Locals near Rangoon report trucks are driving by a crematorium at night as smoke rises constantly from its chimneys. Rumors of victims burnt alive have swept the city, but remain unconfirmed by outside observers. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Buddhist monks  • Red Cross  • superstition  • Rangoon  • Tiananmen Square  • omen

  • September 2007

    • 9 Killed in Burmese Crackdown

      Reuters  |  Sep 27, 07 12:04 PM CDT

      9 Killed in Burmese Crackdown

      (Newser) - Burmese troop forcibly scattered some 70,000 protesters for a second day today, with gunfire claiming the lives of at least nine—even as leaders around the world called for restraint. One of the dead is reportedly a Japanese photographer, spawning fears that the junta is targeting journalists to prevent news coverage.  More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Buddhist monks  • Burma protest  • Yangon

    • Burmese Junta Rounds Up 200 Monks in Midnight Raids

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 27, 07 5:03 AM CDT

      Burmese Junta Rounds Up 200 Monks in Midnight Raids

      (Newser) - The Burmese military junta has once again opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Rangoon and rounded up hundreds of monks in midnight raids on monasteries, the Guardian reports. It was not immediately known if anyone was injured. As many as 200 police officers and soldiers later marched through the streets with loudspeakers warning anyone who didn't leave that they risked being shot, according to Reuters. More »

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      junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • Buddhist monks  • Burma protest  • Rangoon