Burma frees senior NLD members
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Several members of Burma's opposition NLD are freed from jail in a move linked to a  power struggle in the military.
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HARDLINERS in Burma&#39;s military regime were consolidating their control of the country yesterday after ousting the Prime Minister, painting a gloomy prospect for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar announced it would release another 5,000 prisoners and a senior official said on Thursday a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will also be free before long.
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Myanmar&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners, state media has reported, after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released.
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A Burmese opposition group says there has been a purge of high-ranking military intelligence officials since the departure of the ex-prime minister.
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Yangon - Three truckloads of inmates rolled out of Myanmar&#39;s main jail on Friday, a day after the military regime announced it was expanding its prisoner release programme to more than 9 000 people, a correspondent saw.
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Burmese authorities release three prominent dissidents involved in last month's democracy protests.
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RANGOON - At least two dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the Myanmar military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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Burma&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released, according to state media reports.
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Burma&#39;s junta has freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately&quot;.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's tough but pragmatic prime minister was removed from power yesterday by his hard-line army colleagues, clouding prospects for the freedom of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and for democracy in the military-led Southeast Asian nation.
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Burma announced Thursday that it would release more than 5,000 prisoners, and a senior official said a top dissident who was democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide would also be freed before long.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of the 1988 student democracy protests, a source close  to his family said Saturday.
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The prime minister of Burma&#39;s secretive military government, General Khin Nyunt, had been removed from office by hardliners in the regime, according to reports from neighbouring Thailand.
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Angry Buddhist monks in central Myanmar have released five of the 20 hostages they seized at their monastery on Thursday in a tense confrontation with the nation&#39;s military government, residents said.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Myanmar's junta freed at least  two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's  political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people  detained "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged  last month.