Ethnic Peace May Be in Jeopardy in Myanmar
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One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar&#39;s military junta - securing peace with the country&#39;s armed ethnic rebel groups - may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen.
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MAE HONG SON, Thailand  - For the past two   decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from   military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security   as refugees in the hills of northern Thailand.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - The photographs cover almost an entire wall, 200 simple black-and-white reminders that opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is not the only prisoner of conscience in military-ruled Myanmar.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security vacuum and engage in a bloody power struggle.
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Months of tension in Myanmar's junta appeared to break into the open on Tuesday amid rumors Prime Minister Khin Nyunt may have been arrested, Thai officials and diplomats said.
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An Asia-Europe forum accepted Myanmar and  12 other new members on Thursday ahead of a summit strained by  Yangon's human rights record and detention of democracy icon  Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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Burma agrees a peace deal with a splinter group of Karen rebels, but the main body insists it will carry on its fight for autonomy.
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Myanmar's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive whose past human rights violations have been far greater than those against urban protesters that riveted world attention last fall, aid and rebel groups say.
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Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is frustrated at a lack of talks on political reform with the ruling military junta since last year's bloody crackdown on dissent, her party said on Wednesday.
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BANGKOKâThe demise of Myanmar premier Khin Nyunt spells fresh misfortune for detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her prospects for freedom and the country
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The ouster of Myanmar&#39;s prime minister, architect of a tentative &quot;roadmap to democracy,&quot; has dashed faint hopes for an end to military rule and leaves Southeast Asia&#39;s policy of constructive engagement in tatters.
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WASHINGTON  - The United States warned it might boycott ASEAN meetings when Myanmar takes over the chairmanship of the Southeast Asian grouping in 2006, unless the military-ruled state improves its human rights record.
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The U.N. Security Council urged Myanmar's military government on Wednesday to exercise restraint toward peaceful protesters and expressed concern at its violent response to demonstrations in the reclusive Asian nation.
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It is now more than obvious that developments in Myanmar have taken a sad turn. The harden- ing of the junta&#39;s position does not augur well for future United Nations involvement.
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Myanmar's military junta broadcast warnings on Tuesday that included the possibility of using military force to disperse what it called unlawful street protests.