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	<title>Burmanet &#187; Interviews</title>
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		<title>The Myanmar Times: Exile media group eyes homecoming – Kyaw Hsu Mon with U Sein Win</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/30/the-myanmar-times-exile-media-group-eyes-homecoming-%e2%80%93-kyaw-hsu-mon-with-u-sein-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chiang Mai-based managing editor of Mizzima News Agency, U Sein Win, on the prospect of daily papers and his organisation’s plans to return to MyanmarDid you ever expect you would be given a visa to work legally in Myanmar? I’ve wanted to come to Myanmar for a long time. This is the first time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Nine years sleeping on a cold concrete floor – Lin Thant with Ko Ko Gyi</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/24/irrawaddy-nine-years-sleeping-on-a-cold-concrete-floor-%e2%80%93-lin-thant-with-ko-ko-gyi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Burma&#8217;s political prisoners who were recently released told The Irrawaddy that conditions inside the prisons were deplorable until 1999 when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) became involved. Many, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the physical environment and said that conditions varied in prisons across the country.The Irrawaddy reporter Lin Thant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post: Burma’s president gives his first foreign interview &#8211; Lally Weymouth</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/washington-post-burma%e2%80%99s-president-gives-his-first-foreign-interview-lally-weymouth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Naypyidaw, Burma &#8211; Since Thein Sein took office as Burma’s president nine months ago, the country’s famous opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been freed from house arrest, political prisoners have been released and the United States has normalized bilateral relations with Burma, also known as Myanmar. This week, Sein granted The Post’s Lally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Jimmy on way home to meet his daughter &#8211; Phanida</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/13/mizzima-news-jimmy-on-way-home-to-meet-his-daughter-phanida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[88-Generation Student leader Jimmy, aka Kyaw Min Yu, who was arrested in 2007 for staging a protest against a price rise in fuel and commodities, was released on Friday from Shan State Taunggyi Prison. His wife Nilar Thein, also an 88-Generation Student leader, was released from Tharyarwaddy Prison. Their daughter Phyu Chi Nay Min was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: ‘They kicked me a lot, and my tooth fell out’- Kyaw Kha</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/06/mizzima-news-%e2%80%98they-kicked-me-a-lot-and-my-tooth-fell-out%e2%80%99-kyaw-kha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colonel Saw Lwin (aka) Htay Aung, the joint-secretary of the Kayan New Land Party (KNLP), was freed under the recent presidential commutation order. He was held in Obo Prison in Mandalay. In 2007, Colonel Saw Lwin was arrested after the seizure of illegal weapons and goods and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Mizzima correspondent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: 88-generation leaders meet with Suu Kyi &#8211; Tun Tun</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/22/mizzima-news-88-generation-leaders-meet-with-suu-kyi-tun-tun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[88-Generation Students met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday to talk about their statement: “The Attitude of 88-Generation Students on the current political atmosphere and landscape” issued on December 5. The group will not run candidates elections until all political prisoners are released. Suu Kyi and former army captain Win Htein of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Ashin Pyinna Thiha: ‘I am not a bad monk’</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/22/irrawaddy-ashin-pyinna-thiha-%e2%80%98i-am-not-a-bad-monk%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ashin Pyinna Thiha is a prominent Buddhist monk and the abbot of a monastery in Kyeemyindine Township in Rangoon, which has recently become a popular venue for political events. The 47-member Maha Nayaka Sangha Council, Burma’s official state council of Buddhist monks, had previously banned him from giving Dhamma talks for one year. In September, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Rapporteur on rights and reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/05/irrawaddy-rapporteur-on-rights-and-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/05/irrawaddy-rapporteur-on-rights-and-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 2010, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma,Prof. Tomas Ojea Quintana, urged the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry with a specific fact finding mandate to address the question of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. Quintana speaks to The Irrawaddy’s reporter, Ba Kaung, about how he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: ‘They are fighting us like a foreign invasion&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/05/irrawaddy-%e2%80%98they-are-fighting-us-like-a-foreign-invasion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[General Gun Maw, 46, is the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) vice chief of staff and heads the Foreign Affairs Department of the KIA’s political wing, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). He was interviewed by Edith Mirante, of Project Maje, in the besieged town of Laiza on November 21, a week before the KIO met with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White House: Briefing on Burma by Senior Administration Officials</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/18/the-white-house-briefing-on-burma-by-senior-administration-officials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/18/the-white-house-briefing-on-burma-by-senior-administration-officials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Office of the Press Secretary: Grand Hyatt, Bali, Indonesia SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Just to give you a bit of background &#8212; this comes after many months of engagement between the United States and Burma, which we can speak to.The President, of course, had a policy of maintaining the very strong pressure that we apply on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: An exile returns</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/10/irrawaddy-an-exile-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/10/irrawaddy-an-exile-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Harn Yawnghwe, the executive director of the Brussels-based Euro-Burma Office (EBO) and one of Burma&#8217;s most prominent exiles, recently ended his first visit to his native country in nearly half a century. The experience was, he said, eye-opening: Contrary to the misgivings that many exiles still have about recent moves toward political reform in Burma, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Department of State: Roundtable in Burma – Michael H. Posner and Derek Mitchell</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/04/us-department-of-state-roundtable-in-burma-%e2%80%93-michael-h-posner-and-derek-mitchell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/04/us-department-of-state-roundtable-in-burma-%e2%80%93-michael-h-posner-and-derek-mitchell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rangoon, Burma – Remarks by Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; and Derek Mitchell Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma AMBASSADOR MITCHELL: Mingalaba. Good afternoon. It&#8217;s good to see you all. We&#8217;ve just completed a couple days here – I guess it was really two and a half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: NLD could decide to re-register as a political party this week</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/01/mizzima-news-nld-could-decide-to-re-register-as-a-political-party-this-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/01/mizzima-news-nld-could-decide-to-re-register-as-a-political-party-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leadership of the National League for Democracy (NLD) has said party leaders will meet very soon to consider re-registering as a political party. On April 29, 2009, the NLD declared that it would take part in elections only if all political prisoners were released, the undemocratic principles in the 2008 Constitution were amended, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal: Transcript: Aung San Suu Kyi</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/25/wall-street-journal-transcript-aung-san-suu-kyi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/25/wall-street-journal-transcript-aung-san-suu-kyi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘&#8217;We can see the way clear ahead more than we have ever been able to.&#8217;Myanmar&#8217;s leading opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi sat down with a Wall Street Journal reporter Monday to talk about her nation&#8217;s tentative path toward reform. A newly installed civilian government there, which replaced a decades-old military regime, has begun an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: ‘In solitary: I wanted to talk with people: that was the biggest desire’ – Kyaw Kha</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/24/mizzima-news-%e2%80%98in-solitary-i-wanted-to-talk-with-people-that-was-the-biggest-desire%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-kyaw-kha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Su Su Nway, a rights activist for farmers, workers and child soliders in Burma, was recently released from a 12-year prison sentence in the presidential amnesty. She served a long period of time in solitary confinement. She was in Insein, Kalay and Khamti prisons. While she was in solitary confinement, she urged the authorities to [...]]]></description>
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