Word: burma
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...about his next act, but speaks keenly of the month he spent researching in Guangzhou - the Canton of old. Could the Opium Wars soon entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache make him look "like some bloodthirsty Tartar of the steppes"? Wherever Ghosh's Asian epic may turn, readers can rest assured there are few better navigators to guide...
...letters who instilled such fear in Burma's men of arms that he became their longest-serving political prisoner. But on Sept. 22, the day he was finally set free, U Win Tin was just as defiant as on the day of his arrest 19 years ago by Burma's military regime. "I will keep fighting for the emergence of democracy in this country," proclaimed the 79-year-old former journalist, still wearing his blue prison uniform as he spoke to reporters outside the home of a friend in Rangoon...
...prowess. One of the founders of the opposition National League for Democracy, he was viewed by many as the party's chief strategist, as well as a mentor for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is in her 13th year of house arrest for leading Burma's ongoing pro-democracy movement. The generals believed he "was my puppet master," Suu Kyi once wrote of Win Tin. Bo Kyi Win of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, a Thailand-based exile group, said, "They kept him so long because they were afraid...
According to Myanmar Ahlin, a state-run newspaper, Burma's military government released Win Tin and 9,001 other prisoners this week so they could participate in national elections planned for 2010. The polls will be part of the regime's seven-point "Roadmap to Democracy." Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been ruled by a series of repressive military regimes since 1962. Classified by the United Nations as among the world?s least developed countries, the agrarian nation in southeast Asia is still recovered from May's Cyclone Nargis, which killed an estimated 80,000 people and devastated...
...Hanna gathered strength in the Atlantic last week, and Ike is swirling not far behind, headed now for the U.S. That's just in the Atlantic, this month. Last May in the Pacific, the massive Cyclone Nargis killed an estimated 100,000 people in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma...