| May 23, 2008 | - The Myanmar junta, under U.N. pressure, agreed that all international aid workers could enter the country, where Cyclone Nargis had left an estimated 130,000 people dead or missing.
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Bloomberg.com
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| May 6, 2008 | - The military junta in Myanmar put the official death toll from last week's Cyclone Nargis (Urdu for “daffodil”) at 28,458, while foreign observers, taking into account that heavy rains were expected to continue, with malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and dysentery to follow, expected that as many as 100,000 people would die. Before distributing foreign-aid packages, the junta re-labeled them with the names of its generals; a referendum on a new constitution that will perpetuate the junta's rule was not delayed. “Let's go cast a vote,” sang two female pop vocalists on state-run television. “With sincere thoughts for happy days, let's go cast a vote.”
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Reuters India
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The New York Times
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Irrawaddy
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US State Dept.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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BBC
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The New York Times
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Der Spiegel
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BBC
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Popular Science
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| May 5, 2008 | - Cyclone Nargis tore off roofs, shredded trees, overturned cars, and killed more than 10,000 people in Myanmar.
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Local 6
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| October 2, 2007 | -
Burma's junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed. Up to 6,000 monks had been arrested, Internet service to the country was almost completely cut off, and the army was paying 20,000 kyat to the families of non-protesters who had been accidentally killed. “Myanmar people,” said a demoralized taxi driver, “have no blood in their veins.”
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VOA
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BBC News
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Bloomberg
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BBC News
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The Age
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| October 1, 2007 | -
Sylvester Stallone, filming the sequel to “Rambo” near the Burmese border, described the country as “a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams.”
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AP via MyWay
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| September 26, 2007 | - Protesters in Burma, which tied Somalia for the 2007 title of Transparency International's most corrupt nation, taunted soldiers in the country's largest anti-government demonstrations since 1988. “Fuck you, army,” jeered some protesters, “we only want democracy.” “May the people who beat monks be struck down by lightning,” implored others.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 22, 2007 | - Twenty thousand people marched against the junta in Burma; about 400 monks were pushed away from the house where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is imprisoned. “Love and kindness,” read the monks' yellow banner, “must win over everything.”
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The Guardian
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| May 27, 2006 | - The government of Burma extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for an unspecified amount of time.
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BBC News
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| May 15, 2005 | -
Burma claimed that “a world famous organization of a certain superpower nation” had trained the rebels who recently bombed shopping centers in Rangoon. The organization is apparently based in Washington, D.C.
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BBC News
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| May 12, 2005 | - Two tiger cubs died in Burma, despite being breastfed by a woman. The cubs will be stuffed.
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SIFY.com
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| April 22, 2005 | - A woman in Burma was breastfeeding three tiger cubs.
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Reuters
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| August 4, 2004 | -
Myanmar was cracking down on peacock poachers.
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Associated Press
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| September 18, 2003 | -
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hospitalized and underwent surgery for an unknown gynecological condition.
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BBC
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| June 19, 2003 | -
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader who was taken into "protective custody" by the military government of Myanmar, turned 58.
It was reported that Suu Kyi has not been given a change of clothing since she was detained three weeks ago.
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Daily Telegraph
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| February 20, 2001 | -
India's minister of external affairs visited Burma and inaugurated the Myanmar-India Friendship Center for Remote Sensing and Data Processing.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
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| October 17, 2000 | -
Burma's military junta declared that caffeine was a narcotic; under Burmese law, narcotics users can be put to death.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, was stuck in her car on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, after the vehicle was blocked by two government trucks as she attempted to leave the city; in a previous such standoff, Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, remained in her car for thirteen days.
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| NULL 0, 2000 | - John Goodyear, whom Senator John McCain had chosen to manage this year's Republican convention and who once managed public relations for the Myanmar junta, stepped down, and one in four Republicans voted against McCain in primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.
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Newsweek
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Politico
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