88-Generation Students Press Release
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1. The authorities detained the 88 Generation Student leaders Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe on September 27 and Min Zayar and Pyone Cho on September 30, 2006 under false pretenses that the higher authorities had summoned them to hold discussions.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s National League for Democracy, the party of detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, on Tuesday called for the military junta to reopen Red Cross offices that it recently shut down.
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New Delhi: The armies of India and Myanmar pushed aside talk of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday as they launched a three-week car rally to Yangon — in sports utility vehicles from sponsor General Motors.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s military government will this month begin preparing voter lists possibly for a referendum on a constitution being drafted by the ongoing National Convention, it was learned Tuesday.
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Bangkok: Over 100 refugees from military-ruled Myanmar were arrested when their boat washed up on Thai shores early Tuesday after at least 10 days afloat at sea, police and rights workers said.
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`This … made me more courageous,’ says Su Su Nway

Military officials watch her every movement. People are forbidden to talk to her. She has survived Burma’s fearsome Insein prison, though her health is poor.
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The diplomat knew he couldn’t get votes in Senate. Colleagues praise his tenacity but won’t miss his rigidity.
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The Karen refugees from this camp on the Thai-Burmese border do not know it yet, but perhaps their miserable existence in legal limbo will end soon, thanks to the results of the midterm elections in the United States.
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Woman’s remarkable survival inspires fellow sufferers to sneak into India for treatment, writes Shaikh Azizur Rahman
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