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World News tagged with Burma

Ban Ki Moon Demands Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
World  (tags: world, burma, myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, human, rights, political, prisoners, military, junta, Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary-General )

Tom
- 157 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary-General, asked the leader of Burmese junta to release the detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, today but was refused the chance to meet her in an unpromising start to an important two-day visit.
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Burma: Don't Let Them Silence Us
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', burma, china, crime, democracy, freedoms, violence, unitednations, UnitedNations, troops, terrorism, protest, propaganda, myanmar, military, HumanRights, deaths )

Ratty
- 794 days ago - avaaz.org
We won't let our voice be silenced like this. We're taking our message to the streets, in an international day of action on Saturday -- details are on our petition page, and below. Make our voice louder!
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Living in Fear in Burma
World  (tags: Burma, Burmese children, living in fear, persecution, military regimes )

Kristmas
- 792 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Ethnic Karen who talk about their persecution under the military regime...half-a-million people in eastern Burma live in fear of this fate, 30,000 of whom have been displaced by a recent offensive.
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India Wants Burma to Release Suu Kyi
World  (tags: Burma, Myanmar, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Military Junta )

Ben
- 794 days ago - mizzima.com
New Delhi: India has asked the military regime in Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. New Delhi made this demand at a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Myanmar in New York on Tuesday, a MEA release on Thursday
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Burma: Media Warned Not to Cover Protests
World  (tags: protest, media, suppression, burma, journalist )

Rabbit
- 785 days ago - worldpress.org
As the Burmese military dictatorship cracked down on protesters, killing a number of people including monks, it warned journalists not to cover or participate in the street protests that spread across the tightly controlled Southeast Asian country.
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Burma Cyclone--Stand With the People
World  (tags: Burma, cyclone, help, donations, International Burmese Monks Org )


- 577 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
The cyclone that ripped through Burma left tens of thousands dead and a million homeless--a natural disaster made much worse by the failure of the military junta to warn or evacuate its people.
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Burma: Thousands Dead in Massacre of the Monks Dumped in the Jungle
World  (tags: burma, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, terrorism, unitednations, military, violence, myanmar, corruption, crime, deaths )

Lovebug
- 797 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
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Burma: UN Chief Denied Suu Kyi Visit
World  (tags: Burma, United Nations Impotence )

Ben
- 157 days ago - irrawaddy.org
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that Burma's junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to what he has called "a very tough mission" to win her freedom...
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Petition: Stand With The People of Burma
World  (tags: burma, Myanmar, protests, monks, junta, demonstrations )

Rosa
- 802 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
This week, the repressive government of Myanmar started a crackdown on Buddhist monks, activists and ordinary citizens. We can't just stare and watch. Speak out and demand an end to the crackdown. Sign this petition and stand with the people of Burma.
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Suu Kyi, the World's Only Imprisioned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
World  (tags: Aung San Suu Kyi., burma, woman, 'PEACE!' )

Madalena
- 793 days ago - actionburma.com
Aung San Suu Kyi., the world's only imprisioned Nobel Peace Prize recipient .Join the global campaign by Damien Rice, Burma Campaign UK and US Campaign for Burma to free Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, now in her 12th year of house arrest ...
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Hopes and Fears Over Suu Kyi Trial
World  (tags: Government, Burma, Junta, myanmar, military, Suu Kyi, Trial, hope, Govtfearmongering, corruption, lies, dishonesty, conflict, 'HUMAN RIGHTS!', freedoms )

Dee
- 148 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A BBC correspondent in Burma spoke to people about their hopes and fears for Aung San Suu Kyi. Foreign journalists are barred from Burma, so our correspondent must remain anonymous for his own safety.
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Burma Sets Conditions for Suu Kyi
World  (tags: Myanmar, Burma, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Military Junta, democracy )

Ben
- 795 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Burma's military leader, Gen Than Shwe, has agreed in principle to meet the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, state media has reported. In return she must drop her support for international sanctions and abandon her confrontational attit
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You Are No Longer Monks, Myanmar Prisoners Told
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', burma, myanmar, protest )

Sue
- 787 days ago - reuters.com
Caged for more than a week at a former Government Technical Institute compound in north Yangon, the monks -- revered figures in the devoutly Buddhist nation -- were stripped of their maroon monastic robes and treated like common criminals.
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Burma: Time to Match Words With Action!
World  (tags: Burma, ASEAN )

Ben
- 108 days ago - takeaction.amnestyusa.org
Tell ASEAN to match words with actions! Help us send 10,000 postcards to the Thai government by September 1st to urge them to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and thousands of other political prisoners in Burma...
15 comments
Burma: Monk Leaders Call for Boycott
World  (tags: Burma, Military Dicktatorship, NO Democracy, NO Human Rights )

Ben
- 103 days ago - irrawaddy.org
Burmese monks across Burma are preparing to launch another boycott of military personnel and their families due to ongoing abuses against Buddhist doctrine and clergy by the ruling military junta...
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