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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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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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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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Bad news for democracy in Burma
Not a single pro-democracy candidate has been elected in Burma’s “sham” election, writes Asia Correspondent John Sparks.
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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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Violence erupts in wake of Burma’s ‘sham’ election
Clashes have broken out in Burma as two military-backed political parties look set for an election victory. John Sparks reports on the fate of one pro-democracy candidate.
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Burma poll closes amid criticism and indifference
Burma’s first general election for 20 years has ended with critics dismissing the vote, in which two military-backed parties competed unopposed, as neither free nor fair.
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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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Myanmar coup: Anti coup protesters return to streets and world leaders condemn military’s brutal crackdown
Anti coup protesters have been back on the streets across Myanmar – despite yesterday’s bloodshed when security forces shot more than a hundred people dead.
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101-year-old Jim Posnett tells his memories of fighting in the Burmese jungle
A small number of veterans of that gruelling war in the Pacific are still alive.
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‘Prison Island’ of the Rohingya: New island for refugees threatened by monsoon
It’s been six months since the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees began as the Myanmar military and Buddhist vigilantes turned on the Muslims of Rakhine State. Since then, 700,000 have escaped into Bangladesh to join more than 300,000 others who’d fled earlier. Jonathan Miller is there, finding out if a remote uninhabited island, prone to sinking, is really the answer.
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UN Special Envoy claims Aung San Suu Kyi could be guilty of crimes against humanity
The United Nations Special Envoy on Human Rights in Myanmar, also known as Burma, has claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi could be complicit in the systematic persecution of the Rohingya people, in what bears all the hallmarks of genocide. Professor Yanghee Lee, who’s now been barred from Burma, said she’d received many death threats…
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Burmese judge postpones decision on journalists’ bail
A judge in Burma has postponed a decision on bail for two journalists from the Reuters news agency, detained for allegedly violating secrecy laws. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were covering the military crackdown in Rakhine state, where Burmese forces are accused of the murder and rape of Rohingya Muslims, forcing more than 700,000…
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Pope arrives in Myanmar amid controversy over plight of Rohingya Muslims
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar which is also known as Burma, on a visit designed to reach out to some of Asia’s poorest communities. But it’s also fraught with political controversy over the plight of the Rohingya Muslims. The Pope has already met the general in charge of security operations in Rakhine state, whose…
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Rushanara Ali: UK ‘impotent’ on Rohingya
Labour MP Rushanara Ali, chair of the all-party group on Burma, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.