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by danesller0127 | August 8, 2008 at 04:19 am
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The people of Myanmar are marking exactly 20 years since a military crackdown on a student-led democracy uprising left an estimated 3,000 dead.
But after last year's large-scale rallies that were also brutally crushed, the ruling generals were taking no chances on Friday and the only protests were likely to be outside the country.
Extra police and government supporters that critics call thugs, have been stationed at strategic points and Buddhist monasteries around Yangon, the country's biggest city.
Most of the surviving leaders of the seven-month long 1988 uprising - the biggest challenge to army rule stretching back to 1962 - were arrested last August at the start of fuel-price protests that grew into anti-government demonstrations.
They remain behind bars along with an estimated 1,100 political prisoners.
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Outside the South-East Asian nation, however, human rights groups and activists who fled the crackdown on the 1988 protests planned demonstrations at Myanmar and Chinese embassies.
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at 04:39 on August 8th, 2008
The latter are being targeted on what is also the opening day of the Beijing Olympics because of China's commercial and diplomatic ties to the generals, gate-keepers of Myanmar's plentiful reserves of natural gas and other resources...
On Thursday, George Bush, the US president, used a visit to neighboring Thailand, home to more than 100,000 Myanmar refugees and more than a million migrant workers, to call again for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Noble laureate.
"The American people care deeply about the people of Burma and dream for the day the people will be free," he told dissidents and former political prisoners at an our- long lunch.
However, President Bush also heard criticism of Washington's stance towards Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, for focusing the generals into isolation?
at 12:18 on August 8th, 2008
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at 05:27 on August 8th, 2008
Hi! there Pachen' thank you for the GS mark, It's really appreciated...
The Associated Press reported that conditions in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta that was devastated by Cyclone Nagris in May were far worsethan the government and even the UN said.
Three months after a disaster that claimed nearly 140,000 lives, thousands of villagers are still getting little or nothing from the government or foreign aid groups AP repoted...