Retired Myanmar rebel takes on Rambo
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A retired rebel soldier from  the jungles of eastern Myanmar has been plucked from obscurity  to play a brutal Burmese officer opposite Hollywood star  Sylvester Stallone in his latest "Rambo" movie.
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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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A top leader of Myanmar's rebel Karen National Union who was also a key figure in the democracy movement was assassinated Thursday at his home in Thailand, Thai police and political exiles said.
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A former separatist rebel  appeared set on Tuesday to become the next governor of Aceh  after a landmark election in the Indonesian province battered  by decades of conflict and a horrific tsunami
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One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar's military junta &#151; securing peace with the country's armed ethnic rebel groups &#151; may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt lost his job this week.
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N'DJAMENA  - Rebels fighting to overthrow Chad's President Idriss Deby attacked the eastern town of Adre on the border with Darfur on Thursday, in a raid the Chadian government said had been launched from neighboring Sudan.
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Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader taken to face UN genocide charges.
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Ivory Coast's New Forces rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west African nation.
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A Haitian rebel leader has called on ex-soldiers, who helped oust former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to launch a guerrilla war to unseat the interim government that replaced him.
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NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 24: Senior General Than Shwe, head of the Myanmar regime, arrived in New Delhi today to start a visit that marks a high point in Indiaâs decade-long effort to politically engage Yangonâs military rulers.
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One of Asia's most notorious drug warlords, Khun Sa, dies in the Burmese city of Rangoon at the age of 74.
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The international security force in East Timor have begun closing in on wanted rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado's hideout with tanks and helicopters, a witness with the renegade soldier said Wednesday.
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Former general Susilo Bambang is heading for a landslide win against incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia&#39;s first direct presidential election.
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Former separatist rebels have no alternative but to follow the political path after laying down their weapons, a key candidate backed by ex-combatants has said ahead of elections in the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province.
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Hundreds of Myanmar residents in Singapore gathered Sunday for a unique tribute to victims of last September's crackdown in their homeland -- a screening of the new "Rambo" movie.
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Confronted by a military junta willing to pull the trigger, Buddhist monks and democracy activists in Myanmar face long odds in trying to uproot an institution that has wielded absolute power for 45 years.
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Militant Buddhist monks in Myanmar who had taken about 20 officials hostage in a monastery freed them after intervention by a senior abbot, said a senior monk.