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...Burma: The Junta Turns Deadly
...Burma: The Junta Turns Deadly
Outside the clinic, Farmer’s chosen locale looks grim. Horrifying pandemics decimate a population scarred by the poverty and terror that an ongoing U.S. embargo, years of a violent junta and marauding paramilitary forces have bred...
...DETAINED. AUNG SAN SUU KYI, 57, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Burma's National League of Democracy (NLD) party; by Burma's military junta after riots occurred last Friday during her trip to the northern town of Yaway Oo. Govern-ment spokesmen stated that Suu Kyi, who had been released from house arrest in May 2002, was in "protective custody" along with 17 other NLD leaders. Police also sealed off the NLD headquarters in Rangoon...
Razali Ismail, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, is a devoted practitioner of quiet diplomacy. His subtle prodding was widely credited with persuading Burma's military junta to free, in May last year, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. So it was a surprise when, in late April, the Malaysian diplomat told reporters in Bangkok he was "perplexed and disappointed" with the generals' refusal to grant him a visa for the past six months so that he could try to foster dialogue between the two sides: "I really cannot understand...