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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Violence began before dawn as Myanmarâs military junta tried to crush a wave of nationwide protests with tear gas, beatings and volleys of gunfire.
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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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At least one protester was fatally shot by Myanmar security forces Wednesday, according to opposition reports, amid fears that the anticipated crackdown in Myanmar has begun.
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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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Myanmar attempted to soothe UN concerns over the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after the world body's Secretary General Kofi Annan condemned the military regime over its claimed democracy drive.
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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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President Bush on Friday set new sanctions against members of Myanmar's military junta and their associates in response to the junta's violent crackdown on democracy protesters.
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Soldiers and police fired into crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's largest city and gave them 10 minutes to clear the streets or be shot on Thursday, with nine people killed in the second day of a crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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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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YANGON - Myanmar (Burmese) Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt has been placed under âprotective custodyâ in what appears to be a purge of the countryâs much-feared Military Intelligence (MI), military sources said on Tuesday.
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Myanmar's junta deployed riot police and fire trucks at potential flashpoints in Yangon on Friday to prevent pro-democracy protests on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain.
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Myanmar's military junta has told Red Cross officials that the humanitarian group can reopen field offices that the government had ordered shut in October, the aid agency said Thursday.
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Myanmar accused unnamed U.N.   Security Council powers on Tuesday of abusing their role by   putting the isolated Southeast Asian nation on the list of   countries deemed a threat to international peace and security.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council told  Myanmar on Friday to prosecute those who committed abuses  during a crackdown on peaceful monk-led protests and free Nobel  laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.
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THE new Prime Minister of military-ruled Myanmar was behind an attack on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her convoy last year, the United States charged yesterday, amid calls for UN Security Council action against the South-east Asian nation.
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Myanmar's military junta has accused five students who led a nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988 of terrorism and intent to cause "internal commotion" as justification for their arrest last week.