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...Burma when the protests first started,” Maung told the crowd. “I had to see my friends go to the protests, fighting for their freedom and afraid for their lives...
...grand name, the junta controls not only the armed forces but all aspects of politics and the economy as well. Indeed, constitutional guidelines passed last month bar anyone without army experience from holding high office. "The military believes they are the only ones who can run Burma," says Khin Maung Nyunt, an exiled former military officer who was among the first batch of cadets at Burma's Defense Services Academy when it opened its doors in 1955. "They have no confidence in civilians leading the country, and they are very arrogant about their superior power...
...True, during the lead-up to last month's brutal suppression of the protests, exile groups buzzed with speculation that the junta's No. 2, General Maung Aye, opposed any violence. Rumors of tensions between Than Shwe and his deputy have circulated for years. Yet any hope of a moderating influence died when troops began opening fire on Sept. 26, killing at least 10 people in Rangoon, according to the junta's own likely lowball death count. (Hundreds of others are still reported missing, including many monks, whom exile groups fear have been rounded up and imprisoned across the nation...
...teach-in said they were pleased by the number of attendees. “I was amazed by the turnout, especially in Hilles at night,” said the leader of the Harvard Burma Action Movement, a student at the College who uses the pseudonym Shanti Maung to protect her relatives and friends still living in Myanmar. “We are trying to get media attention so that the people of Burma know that the world is still watching...
...could there be cracks developing in the army's cohesion? During the lead-up to last week's brutal suppression of the Buddhist monk-led demonstrators, exile groups buzzed with speculation that the junta's No. 2, General Maung Aye, was opposing any violence. Then, army troops opened fire, killing at least 10 people in Rangoon. On Sunday, democracy advocates regained a modicum of hope when visiting United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari was allowed to meet with Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won elections in 1990 that the junta ignored. Exile websites wondered whether this meeting meant...