Word: kyaw
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BURMA Free to Talk Government officials said they would resume talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who made her first public appearance after 19 months of house arrest. But military intelligence chief Kyaw Win said details of the talks would remain secret, and international labor and human-rights groups warned that the release of Suu Kyi did not herald the country's imminent return to democracy...
...Kyaw Aung, who was kidnapped by the military at age 14, says his company once tied a Karen elder suspected of being a rebel sympathizer to a post. His sergeant ordered Kyaw Aung to gut the prisoner from neck to groin. "I had no choice," says Kyaw Aung, another recent deserter. "If I hadn't done it, the sergeant would have had the other soldiers tie me up and cut me open...