Word: myanmar
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Halfway across the world from Myanmar, where monks have been protesting against the military government, Harvard students gathered in support of ending police violence against the protesters...
Held on Friday afternoon, the event was organized by a Harvard senior who is president of the Burma Action Movement, an unofficial group of Harvard students who support a peaceful resolution to the situation in Myanmar...
...group’s president uses the pseudonym “Shanti Maung” to protect relatives still living in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, where she was born...
...India to use its influence with Burma to help end the bloodshed, Delhi has taken a softly, softly approach to the current crisis for the same reasons China has: potential trade with and influence over the energy-rich Southeast Asian nation. "We are concerned at the situation in Myanmar and are monitoring it closely. It is our hope that all sides will resolve their issues peacefully through dialogue," said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the single short public statement he has made on the subject so far. "As a close and friendly neighbor, India hopes to see a peaceful...
...equation may be China, Burma's largest trading partner and ideological ally. But despite calls from the West for China to use economic leverage over Burma, it's not clear how much influence Beijing really has. "China will urge Myanmar to use peaceful means to solve the problem, [because] China would like to see a stable environment in Myanmar," says Zhai Kun, an expert on Southeast Asia at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "But because Myanmar is a closed society, I don't think they listen to advice from the outside, including China...