Burmese junta keeps Myanmar's Shan in state of fear
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KYAING TONG, Myanmar  - At night, the gilded Buddha standing imperiously on a hill overlooking Kyaing Tong is one of the few spots of light in the inky blackness of eastern Myanmar's Shan hills.
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Myanmar's junta sent armed police to ring key Buddhist sites on Friday, the end of an annual period of monastic retreat, to prevent any resurgence of last month's monk-led protests, the biggest uprising in two decades.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta has pledged to stick by its &quot;roadmap to democracy,&quot; but analysts said on Friday what little credibility the plan had has been shattered by the purge
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Myanmar's generals threatened action against further attempts at demonstrations on Tuesday and parked military trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the main protests.
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Burma's military junta bans groups of more than five people gathering.
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Exclusive: The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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The United States on Monday accused Myanmar's military rulers of planning a sham referendum in a "pervasive climate of fear" but the United Nations reacted more cautiously to the junta's surprise election pledge.
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Military-ruled Burma says it will stick with its âroad mapâ to democracy despite the juntaâs recent purge of the prime minister who proposed it, but is ducking questions on when pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go free.
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Burma tells the UK to stay out of its affairs as concerns continue over its participation in an EU-Asia meeting.
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About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988.
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The absent member will be the one holding center-stage at a meeting in Hanoi of leaders of Asia and Europe. In a hard-fought compromise, Myanmar's ruling junta will not send its government head.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Defying international calls to relent, Myanmar's junta is still hunting down activists involved in September's monk-led protests, causing scores to flee to Thailand, fugitives and aid workers said on Wednesday.
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Protesters march for democracy and raise fears about how the junta will react
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested Wednesday outside the locked gates of Myanmar's most revered temple, challenging the country's military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.
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Buddhist monks staged a new protest Friday against Myanmar&#39;s ruling junta, which is under mounting international pressure as it faces the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly 20 years.
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Thailand on Tuesday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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YANGON, Myanmar - Military-ruled Myanmar will stick to its plans for gradual democratization despite the abrupt appointment of a new prime minister believed to hold a hard line in dealing with the countryâs political reform movement, Foreign Minister