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...RELEASED. 3,937 prisoners, including student leader MIN KO NAING, 42 (pictured after his release from Sittwe prison), and at least two dozen members of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy; from jails around the country; in Burma. Reasons for the mass release remain unclear; the move follows last month's purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt by the junta, and state media have reported that the prisoners had been "inappropriately" jailed by the former PM's intelligence apparatus. Min Ko Naing, a leader of 1988's student democracy protests, had been...
...thought I was referring to America, try looking at Sudan. Or China. Or Cuba. Or Burma, Haiti, Libya, Uganda, Congo, Vietnam, Liberia, Pakistan, Syria, Laos, Rwanda, and North Korea. As of 2002, these countries all ranked below zero in their polity scores, which measure the degree of democracy minus autocracy...
...under military-intelligence control, including the lucrative black markets on the borders, have been shuttered or taken over by the junta. The power struggle barely registered among average Burmese. Life in Rangoon was normal, except for a slightly higher number of troops on the streets. "Nothing really changed in Burma," says a Western diplomat. "The reforms were only ever cosmetic, and done for an international audience." What Khin Nyunt's arrest really demonstrates is that the only real threat to the junta's survival comes from within its own ranks...
...Just as rock 'n' roll helped tear down the Iron Curtain, it can help bring freedom to Burma." JEREMY WOODRUM, founder of U.S. Coalition for Burma, responding to a Burmese ban on For the Lady, a benefit album supporting imprisoned democracy activist Aung...
...export annually to the U.S. and the European Union. As a result, the Children's Place?and all other American retailers?can't buy exclusively from countries that make them most efficiently and cheaply, such as China, but must also order from less competitive factories in places such as Burma and Swaziland. "It's crazy: 80% of our clothing comes from 20% of the countries," says Joshi. "But we need to go to all these places because of the quota system...