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...special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met both Than Shwe and Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won elections in 1990 that the junta ignored. Exile groups speculated these rare meetings might signal at least a token effort by the generals to address widespread international condemnation of last week's crackdown. Rumors that Than Shwe, who has been ill for years, has picked junta No. 3 Shwe Mann - a purported economic pragmatist - as his favored successor have also raised hopes. But a change of guard may not mean much. The Burmese military has ruled with an iron grip for 45 years...
...Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, and does not possess the institutions to monitor how the government uses its new oil riches. East Timor's economy will have almost no other foundations - studies estimate over 90% of government revenues eventually will come from oil. Before its latest brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors, Burma's military regime already demonstrated such little concern for its people that it reportedly spent among the lowest on health care per person of any government on the planet. Hiding out in its new jungle capital Naypyidaw, the junta has not even suggested that oil money will...
CONTEXT As its army moved this fall to quash monks' peaceful protests, the violent crackdown made international headlines that, depending on the publication, identified the country as Burma, Myanmar or both...
...ruling junta continues its crackdown against pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar, students gathered for a teach-in at the Student Organization Center at Hilles to spread awareness about the situation there. About 50 people attended the event Tuesday night, which followed last Friday’s demonstration in Harvard Square. The first speaker, Daw Aye Aye San, was an activist in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in 1988 amid a wave of student protests. She said that after being arrested, she was tortured for six days before being sent to prison. She said that one military officer told...
...extent of the crackdown is a testament to the importance of the Congress, where President Hu Jintao and his "Populist" supporters are fighting to gain the upper hand over a rival faction in the Party, the so-called "Elitist" group. Whichever side wins the struggle, it's unlikely to make much difference in the way the security forces treat dissenting voices like Li's. For now, however, the crude brutality of the attack has, if anything, made him more determined to persevere. In reply to a question about whether he would do what the men wanted and leave Beijing...