Myanmar junta admits used tear gas, warning shots
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Myanmar's military junta said on Wednesday it had used tear gas and fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilians protesting in the northwestern coastal city of Sittwe.
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Years of civil war and abuse of ethnic  minorities in eastern Myanmar by the ruling military junta have  left the region more like the grimmest corners of Africa or  Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, a new report said on Thursday.
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The United States imposed new sanctions on Myanmar's ruling junta Thursday as its Southeast Asian neighbors urged a peaceful resolution to growing political unrest in the country.
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Myanmar's ruling junta openly accused its former premier of corruption and said he was sacked to prevent the disintegration of the country's powerful military.
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Southeast Asian countries came close to issuing a critical statement on the Myanmar military government&#39;s treatment of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at their summit, but the plan was shot down by Thailand, sources said.
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Myanmar&#39;s junta was interrogating 13 activists arrested for organising a rally against the regime over its massive hike in fuel prices ahead of likely legal action, state media said Saturday.
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BANGKOK - Ending nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks yesterday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons, and making scores of arrests to suppress antigovernment marchers.
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Myanmar's junta leader on Tuesday accused western countries of using sanctions to derail the military's "road map" to democracy, as the regime prepares for a constitutional referendum.
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through the Myanmar city of Sittwe on Wednesday, a day after soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots to scatter a similar protest against the ruling generals, a witness said.
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Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew  in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday which was imposed  last month after mass protests that prompted a crackdown.
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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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A top U.N. rights envoy condemned on  Wednesday the arrest and jailing of opposition activists in  military-ruled Myanmar and said he had received credible  reports of rights violations in border areas.
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Government troops retaliate violently against protesters in Burma's capital, sealing off streets and firing into crowds
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Yangoon (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Myanmarâs military junta freed about 500 of the nearly 4,000 prisoners it promised to release, this according to eyewitness accounts.
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Seething crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Troops cleared the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, telling protesters they had 10 minutes to go home or be shot, as the Myanmar junta intensified its two-day crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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For the second time in two months, President Bush announced sanctions against Myanmar to punish the military-run government and its backers for the recent violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.