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News World UN Committee condemns Burma’s rights violations UN Committee condemns Burma’s rights violations by Mungpi Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:03 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burma’s ‘systematic and widespread’ human rights violations came in for...
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A key U.N. committee late Thursday strongly condemned human rights violations in Myanmar and urged the government to release more than 2,000 political prisoners and open the upcoming elections to all political parties. Myanmar's United Nations Ambassador...
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For the lawyers practicing at the city sessions court in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal Thursday, November 12 th , 2009 was just another busy day. They passed by the court of Ms Kavita Dey without as much as a second look. For them the scene was...
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Lt-Gen Myint Swe is being widely tipped to succeed Snr-Gen Than Shwe as the Burmese army’s next commander in chief, according to several dissidents in exile and Burma observers. Rumors have circulated that Myint Swe is junta strongman Than Shwe’s favored...
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Meepura newspaper and private citizens gathered in front of the airport in response to an appeal by The Friends of the Third World...Negombo Police Chief Ajith Wickremarathna ordered the protesters off airport ground, saying they had no permit to demonstrate...
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Burma and call for the release of all political prisoners, including the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as for an inclusive political process ahead of the 2010 elections...Thein Sein to free Suu Kyi and other political prisoners while in Singapore,...
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The volatile Shan state in northeastern Burma is the country’s largest state and home to an estimated six million people. Low-intensity conflict has eaten away at the region for more than half a century as armed ethnic groups fight for autonomy against...
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In the letter, which he claimed was personal, he said that he thought it was too late for the election law yet to be enacted and promulgated. “Since my party has not yet become a legal party, I sent the letter on a personal capacity, making a request...
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Myanmar — Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results...Than Shwe released Tuesday, Suu Kyi has requested...
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President Barack Obama's call on Monday for Internet freedom in China met with wariness and cynicism from many Chinese Internet users, suggesting his effort to win over the country's youth has some way to go. Some were intensely patriotic in their comments,...
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