The families of five ’88 generation student leaders taken into police custody almost three months ago have again pleaded for their release.
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Karen state, Myanmar: First they killed his neighbours, shooting them as they were gathering the rice harvest. Then they set fire to Saw Tah Wah’s village. Finally the Myanmese Army soldiers planted landmines around the burned homes to maim anybody daring to return.
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People selected by the military regime to be the chairmen and secretary of Village Peace and Development Council have been trained in methods on how to organize the people and approach the State Peace and Development Council in what will be a military controlled democracy, said a trainee.
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YANGON: The MRTV-4, a paid channel jointly implemented by the Myanmar Radio and Television Department (MRTV) and the private-run Forever Group, started free-to-air telecast  Friday covering Yangon and its nearby areas.
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Yangon: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka will pay a working visit to Myanmar in the near future, an official announcement said here Friday without giving  the date of the visit.
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Bangkok: A total of 120 migrant workers from Myanmar were found hidden inside two trucks as they were being smuggled from the border to Thailand’s capital, police said Friday.
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Nick Meo travels to the Thai-Myanmese border to meet the ethnic Shan soldiers fighting Yangon for independence
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South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon took the oath of office as the next secretary-general of the UN, promising to restore the world body’s tarnished reputation and push for peace in the Middle East and conflict-wracked Darfur.
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December 13: New York: The military junta that ran Argentina during the late 1970s and early 1980s thought nothing of keeping its naval officers in close proximity to the thousands of dissidents tortured and executed for opposing the regime.
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