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Myanmar minority resist Cyclone Mahasen evacuation

A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.

By Associated Press , May 16, 2013

Rights group: Myanmar unrest is 'ethnic cleansing'

BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international rights group on Monday accused authorities in Myanmar, including Buddhist monks, of fomenting an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority that killed hundreds of people and forced 125,000 from their homes.

By Todd Pitman, Associated Press , April 22, 2013

Obama to speak at Myanmar campus scarred by past

The soldiers began to shoot students at Rangoon University at 6:30 p.m. Hla Shwe watched, cowering in a nearby building, as his friends died. “I heard the shouting,” he recalled. “They shot whoever they saw.”

November 18, 2012

Myanmar ready for historic Obama visit

President Barack Obama's historic visit to Myanmar on Monday is meant to show America's support for the country's transition to democracy.

November 18, 2012

Strong quake strikes Myanmar, 12 feared dead

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A strong earthquake of magnitude-6.8 struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.

By Aye Aye Win, Associated Press , November 11, 2012

Survivors criticize Myanmar gov't over clashes

Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more than 28,000 people over the last week.

October 30, 2012

Suu Kyi urges end to US sanctions against Myanmar

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated a call Tuesday for the lifting of sanctions against her impoverished country, and vowed to use her new parliamentary role to foment more change.

By Tom Coyne, Associated Press , September 25, 2012

Death toll passes 20 in Myanmar ethnic violence

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — People fled their burning homes and Myanmar's security forces struggled to contain communal violence Tuesday in a western region where state media reported the death toll climbed to 21.

By Associated Press , June 12, 2012

State of emergency declared for western Myanmar

Myanmar's president has declared a state of emergency in a western state where sectarian tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have unleashed deadly violence. He warned that if the situation spun out of control, it could jeopardize the democratic reforms he has been instituting since taking office last year.

June 11, 2012

Myanmar state press lauds Suu Kyi's cooperation

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's once-hostile state-run press offered unprecedented praise Tuesday to Aung San Suu Kyi, lauding the opposition leader for working with President Thein Sein for the country's benefit and calling the pair “the hope of Myanmar.”

June 05, 2012

EU suspends Myanmar sanctions after reforms

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union on Monday suspended its sanctions against Myanmar for a year following a wave of widely praised political reforms in the country, but will retain an embargo on arms sales, officials said.

By Slobodan Lekic, Associated Press , April 23, 2012

Myanmar holds historic election

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon is on the verge of ascending to public office for the first time.

By Associated Press , April 02, 2012

Clinton congratulates Myanmar on landmark election

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is congratulation the people of Myanmar for participating in the election process — a first for many of them.

April 01, 2012

Clinton bids for a new era of democracy in Burma

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was presented during a historic three-day visit to Myanmar with two distinct sides to life in the isolationist and authoritarian country: the planned city of monstrous government offices and palaces built by a brutal military regime, and the Southeast Asian metropolis famed for temples and monks, where Clinton met a soul mate in opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

December 02, 2011

Myanmar first 'pariah' to take up Obama engagement

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a historic opening to isolated Myanmar, President Barack Obama finally found a taker Friday for his Inauguration speech offer to extend a hand to rogue states "if you are willing to unclench your fist."

By Ben Feller and Matthew Lee, Associated Press , November 18, 2011

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