Burma Cracks Down on Minorities
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Burma's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive
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BANGKOK, Oct 13 (IPS) - A healthy mix of European passion for wealth and  Asian comfort in repression have given a new lease of legitimacy  and political life to one of South-east Asia's most brutal  regimes, the military government in Burma.
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President Bush will announce additional sanctions on Friday against Burma, where the military-run government has conducted a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters
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The Security Council calls for restraint as several people are reported killed in Burma's crackdown on protests.
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Burmese security forces storm monasteries and arrest scores of monks after days of protests, witnesses say.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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Ladies' smalls sap generals' vital energy The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime - a deluge of panties dispatched to the country's embassies in a "in a culturally insulting gesture of protest" against its recent crackdown on protestors.â¦
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Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have doubled their broadcasts to Myanmar in response to the military-run government's crackdown on protesters.
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The EU is set to impose new sanctions against Burma, overshadowing a summit of Asian and European leaders.
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RANGOON, Burma - Police in full riot gear attempted to disperse more than 100 Buddhist monks who defied the junta's ban on public assembly this morning by trying to penetrate a barricade blocking Rangoon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Ethnic minority groups in Northern Ireland are warned by police of threats to attack them.
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Scores of monks march in Burma for the first time since the government's brutal crackdown on protests.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.
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The raids, arrests, beatings, and murders have begun in Myanmar. And for the Record, the People's Republic of China, the number one ally, financial backer, and spiritual guide of the State Peace and Development Council has never done anything to discourage the junta's use of violence--though everyone believes they easily could now. Worse, in this case the PRC may have encouraged violence, for just as China successfully cracked down on (massacred) its student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, so the Burmese junta is cracking down on its Buddhist-led protesters with China's tacit approval in 2007.
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More than 100 Burmese monks defy public assembly ban by trying to penetrate barricade blocking Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.
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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.