Myanmar broadcasts include warning of military force
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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.
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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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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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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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Military rulers in Burma are bracing themselves for a new day of protests after a dusk-to-dawn curfew passes.
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Myanmar's military government, a target of sharp international criticism for failing to hand over power to a democratically elected government, announced Saturday that it will hold elections in 2010.
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Burma's military government is accused of sanctioning the use of rape as a weapon against opponents.
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Myanmar's military government marched ahead Saturday with its much-criticized plans for a new constitution amid U.S. pressure on the United Nations to condemn the junta's iron-fisted treatment of protesters.
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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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Burma's military government warns it will take strong action against those who take part in fuel protests.
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Soldiers fired warning shots Thursday above an estimated crowd of 70,000 anti-government demonstrators defying a crackdown that has drawn international appeals for restraint by Myanmar's ruling junta.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - 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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Army-ruled Myanmar has finished writing a new constitution, to be put to a May referendum, which gives the military the "leading political role" in the future state, official media said on Tuesday.
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The military government banned assemblies of more than five people and imposed curfews in Myanmar's two largest cities on Tuesday
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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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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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The United Nations has expressed concern over reports that Myanmar&#39;s prime minister has been ousted and put under house arrest and urged the military government to remain committed to a promised &quot;road map&quot; to democracy.