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Aung San Suu Kyi: the world awaits
The situation in Burma regarding Aung San Suu Kyi’s release is utterly unclear at the moment.
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Aung San Suu Kyi still waits for release
The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is set to be freed from her latest spell of house arrest. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Miller, reports.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is free: what next for Burma?
Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from house arrest today, after a total of 15 years and 20 days in detention. What next? Author and human rights activist Benedict Rogers reports.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘The Lady’ of Burma
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been released from house arrest in Burma, or Myanmar. Channel 4 News looks at her rise to lead National League for Democracy (NLD).
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Burma frees Aung San Suu Kyi
Euphoria ripples through Burma as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released. The generals, who rule by fear, will be running scared says our foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller.
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Little optimism of Aung San Suu Kyi's release
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman finds that few of those in the know are optimistic that the Burmese authorities will follow through on their hints of freeing Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Could Aung San Suu Kyi be freed?
Iconic Burmese democracy fighter Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed, according to reports. But her lawyer tells Channel 4 News he will believe it when he sees it.
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Time running out for Aung San Suu Kyi
It crawls on, more a display of power over an individual than a legal process, one which people look to to guage quite how confident a military dictatorship feels. Aung San Suu Kyi today heard her defence’s closing arguments in her trial. In a Burmese court, inside the notorious Insein jail, she’s been standing before…
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Thousands protest in Myanmar despite internet blackout
A near-total internet blackout is now in force in Myanmar, where the leaders of a military coup are facing a rising tide of protests. The streets of the city of Yangon were filled with angry demonstrators, demanding the release of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi who was detained following the army take-over…
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Suu Kyi denies genocide against Rohingya at UN court
Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied her country’s armed forces commited genocide against Rohingya Muslims – as she faced allegations at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
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Cameron backs suspension of Burma sanctions
David Cameron calls for a suspension of economic sanctions against Burma and invites Aung San Suu Kyi to visit the UK, but Channel 4 News hears there are still reasons for businesses to be cautious.
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Thousands flee Burma in post-election fighting
Burma’s first election in 20 years was supposed to mark the end of military rule – but nothing’s changed, writes John Sparks, as the junta declares victory and refugees flee fighting in the country.
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Burma: strange case of Suu Kyi and the night swimmer
The story of the unwanted visitor to the world’s only Nobel laureate-political prisoner makes truly bizarre reading. It’s so weird, in fact, that it could really only happen in a country whose political manoeuvrings are stage-managed by a military junta. Burma’s “ministry of truth” appears to have fooled only the generals into thinking that everything’s…
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The Gen Z army fighting Myanmar’s military dictator
In Myanmar, more than 3,000 civilians have been killed and more than one million people displaced internally in a brutal civil war that erupted after a military coup two years ago which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi and her elected government.
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Myanmar police fire rubber bullets in crackdown on anti-coup protesters
Security forces have raided the party headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader ousted by the military, whom the protestors want restored to power.
