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"They [the junta] don't give us pressure any more, " he said. The Burmese government wants the KIO to cooperate voluntarily, he said.

But his reputation, like that of the junta, was left tattered by the fiascos over currency controls and foreign business-ownership.

However, observers said the blast was either part of an internal conflict within the junta or an attack by a dissenting armed group.

One sign of this distrust, they suggested, was the fact that the Burmese junta leaders never travel to China for medical treatment.

The junta would not tolerate her attempts to travel around the country to meet members of her party and other supporters.

India was happy to give the junta the chance, in the general's visit, to remind China that it is not the only game in town.

At the meeting, the junta warned that if the KPC did not transform to BGF within a week, the Burmese Army will take military action.

Succession in each Arab state seems to follow its own rules and, after Mr Mubarak dies, a power-grabbing junta cannot be ruled out.

The junta has placed such strict limits on her activities that she has in effect simply been released into a larger prison.

The junta seemed confident it had beaten the life out of the protests, for now at least.

He said he hoped the Burmese junta would keep its word.

Earlier this week the USDP was asked by an election candidate to ensure it had severed ties with the ruling junta prior to the polls.

"We did not order them to leave, the junta itself did, " a source quoted one of the Wa officers as saying.

The regime that succeeded him was an uneasy tussle between idealists and a would-be military junta.

And if realpolitik dictates, India is perfectly capable of cosying up to a dictatorship, such as the Burmese military junta.

It has said the agreement will be revoked if the junta tries to achieve its BGF goal by force.

A long-ruling junta handed over power at the end of March to a new administration made up mostly of its own supporters.

On the eve of his trip the junta freed one prominent detainee after seven years of house arrest.

April 1988: Suu Kyi returns home to attend to her ailing mother just as pro-democracy protests erupt against the military junta.

The restrictions the junta imposes on her after that will not mask her huge moral stature and widespread support.

The junta refused to honour the result of the last elections in 1990 when Suu Kyi's party won by a landslide.

Observers say that the junta plans to take over control of all cross-border trade after transforming the DKBA into a BGF.

Jean-Paul Costa, president of the ECHR, notes that the only country ever to withdraw from the convention was Greece under its junta.

Its spokesman, Capt Moussa Camara, wearing a red beret, said the junta wanted to "save a people in distress" .

They were designed not so much to pass power to civilian politicians as to entrench the junta's own power.

A border watcher commented that although military junta is beefing up forces there has yet to be any sign of a major operation.

Others were less amused. One of the accused was once a spokesman for a particularly nasty military junta.

The junta has relocated its base from Rangoon to a brand-new city in the interior it has named Naypyidaw, which means "city of the kings. "

Even in Rangoon, power outages are as common as junta informants; both leave the populace in the dark.

Beijing must stop blocking Security Council action and use all its influence to press the junta to open up the country to relief efforts.

Lawyers from this organization have been working with and representing victims and their families since the midst of the military junta.

Instead of being allowed to serve in office, the military junta has kept her under house arrest for much of the time since her election.

The trip is scheduled for a few days after the junta's four-monthly meeting.

MOST writing about the benighted land of Burma, dubbed Myanmar by the grotesque junta running it, falls into one of two traps.

But at ASEAN's summit in July, it spoke out for more robust regional human-rights standards and against the Burmese junta.

You might expect a military junta with sweeping powers to have kept up the fight against such illicit activity.

However, China today is overall not atotalitarian state, nor a military junta, nor a state run at the personal whim of a dictator.

The cabinet reshuffle was also significant for the sidelining of a holdover from the military junta.

Guinea's junta started to fall apart only after the slaughter of at least 150 demonstrators in September provoked an international outcry.

The junta fell less than a year later.

The monks have been marching through the streets of the city, calling for the overthrow of the country's ruling junta.

Since then, China has provided broad diplomatic and economic support for the junta, considered one of the most corrupt in the world.

"Down with the junta! " Moscow is against the State Committee of the State of Emergency.

This year on an unnamed date (perhaps its astrologers cannot agree) the junta will hold another election. It will not lose this one.

However, the KIO lost control of it soon after the ceasefire and it is now under the direct control of the junta's Ministry of Mines.

"Where were the ethnic armies? " asked one resident of Yangon, plaintively, of the uprising against the junta in September.

There is a strange parallel between Burma's geriatric opposition leaders, known as the Uncles, and the junta's clutch of aged generals.

Once the "Dear Leader" disappears, North Korea will most likely not be run by the "Bright Comrade, " but by a military junta.

Junta supremo Snr-Gen Than Shwe made him a four star general in 2009, balancing rising star Shwe Mann.

Even if Mr Rogers, a writer and human-rights activist, knew Burmese, he would grapple with the secrecy that surrounds the junta.

Some analysts credit China, Myanmar's second-largest trading partner, with nudging the junta into what looks like a concession.

Nay Phone Latt, who owns two Internet cafes in Rangoon, was arrested in January for possessing a video that had been banned by the junta.

As tension has mounted between the junta and the NMSP, party leaders said that the cease-fire agreement depends on the junta.

The EU has imposed a series of measures intended to put pressure on the junta, including an arms embargo, visa ban and trade restrictions.

The Nixon Administration was not so insensitive to the Chilean junta's clumsy and occasionally brutal practices as our critics alleged.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the opposition in Myanmar , met a minister from the ruling junta for the first time in two years.

All departments and ministries submit reports to the meeting and receive directives from junta leaders.

This week's, like other, smaller protests over the years since then, failed to budge the junta.

It has suspended Niger, saying it may impose sanctions on junta members if they prove reluctant to cede power.

The military junta is determined to put down all political opposition.

The U. S. has intensified its financial sanctions targeting Burmese junta leaders.

The playing field is tilted firmly in favour of the junta's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), led by the prime minister.

In other words, the junta can control the direction of their own circumstances, self-transformation.

That way, the junta would not only eliminate its political opponents; it would steal their children.

Some ethnic party leaders are members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association, the junta-backed civilian mass organization.

President Bush has directed the U. S. Treasury Department to freeze the assets of 14 senior members of the Burmese junta.

This would be an evolutionary process rather than a junta-inspired shift.

He was quoted as calling Myanmar's junta leaders "stupid" and observing that dealing with them was like "talking to dead people. "

Indeed, two more of the junta's cronies were added to a Treasury blacklist days before Mr Bush left office.

Guinea-Bissau's military junta handed power back to a civilian government six weeks after the army staged a coup.

It was preoccupied with the Myanmar junta's farcical plans for an election this year.

"How about Myanmar? " he asked, spying the junta's official name for Burma among the options.

Junta chief Than Shwe began by appointing Prime Minister Thein Sein as chairman of the new Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).

So far, the ruling junta has not weakened Niger's ties with China.

It took far too long and far too many pleadings before the junta agreed to let any international relief planes land.

But others are still fighting the junta or have been politically stymied, sowing the seeds of future friction (see article).

Many delegates complained that the drafting process was undemocratic and deeply biased in favor of the junta.

And on March 30th, the military junta dissolved itself and handed over formal power to its selected successors.

The junta has taken a small, promising first step by appointing its deputy labor minister as a liaison to Ms. Suu Kyi.

But the intention of the junta was to crush democracy, not just communism.

These days, however, if any countries can sway the junta they are the regional ones: ASEAN, especially Thailand; India; and above all China.

But Myanmar's military junta disqualified Suu Kyi from serving because of her house arrest and annulled the election results.

The junta expects the KIO to respond to its border guard proposal by October.

China is the junta's key ally and trade partner, and an eager investor in the isolated state's sizeable natural resources.

The response to the cyclone is just the most recent example of the junta's failure to meet its people's basic needs.

It also rejected any cessation from the union, a charge leveled against ethnic groups by the junta throughout its history.

Officials say foreign workers have begun entering the country's hard-hit delta area after being blocked for weeks by the military junta.

Burma's ruling military junta keeps a close watch on all media outlets to snuff out any criticism of its rule.

Even the main pro-government politicians have attempted to create space between themselves and the junta.

Now the obstacles are a shortage of funds and foreign squeamishness about dealing with the junta.

Mr John said China had access to the highest levels of the junta leadership, and had indicated it would use its leverage to push for change.

I'm not for Junta, but I'm in a puzzle about "the will of international comunity" , media sometimes refer.

When the military junta opened fire on protesters led by monks in September, the Muslims had an excellent view of the violence.

In the paranoid decades of military rule, members of Myanmar's junta told diplomats that they feared an American invasion and regime change.

The junta refused to recognize the results and has kept Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for most of the years since.

In other social areas, however, observers said junta troops have continued a campaign of human rights abuses and land confiscation.

The junta has ostracised them, by refusing full Myanmar citizenship, calling them only "residents of Rakhine state" .

If the junta still resists, the United States and other countries must begin airdrops of supplies.

However, the military government or "junta" has restricted the entrance of aid by requiring all donations to pass through them.

Finally the junta would formally transfer power to a new administration within 90 days of the election.

In May a constitutional tribunal created by the junta found the TRT guilty of electoral fraud and dissolved it.

She also said Washington and Jakarta will take the lead in pushing Burma's military junta to embrace democratic reforms.

Leading members of the Burmese military junta are scheduled to meet in the coming week in Naypyidaw.

Junta's troops are reportedly setting up a new artillery base in the border town of Three Pagodas Pass.

The freedom fighters withdrew into the mountains, from which they mounted an insurrection against the junta.

Only in recent times, a quarter-century after the junta's fall, have enough facts been gathered to enable hundreds of prosecutions.

Meanwhile, however, the pro-junta USDP will continue to campaign openly, while pro-democracy parties are made to play a waiting game.

The junta has some awesome restrictions on owning electronics, especially computers.

funds have enabled the country's autocratic junta to maintain power and pursue an expensive, illegal nuclear weapons program.

Looks more like a military junta takeover than an actual election.

The Junta try to prevent more videos, photographs and information about their violent crackdown getting out.

Burma is well-known for the repression of its ruling military junta.

The source said no children or grandchildren of the junta's top officials were killed in the explosions.

The military junta would then quietly extend Suu Kyi's detention well beyond next year's planned elections, they feared.

The Burmese junta this week banned DKBA troops from carrying weapons and wearing uniforms while traveling.

Officials say foreign workers have begun entering the country's hard-hit delta area after being blocked for weeks by military junta.

Thailand's military junta is tightening foreign ownership restrictions.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will talk with the junta over stability in Burma during his trip in the near future.

When people in Kwangju, the central city of Cholla, rose up, the junta sent in tanks and paratroopers.

Thus, the junta has threatened that the Burmese Army will dispatch two brigades to the area.

Thus, the junta has threatened that the Burmese Army will dispatch two brigades to the area.

Thus New Delhi's controversial aid to Burma's junta, which returns the favor by attacking anti-Indian insurgents.

"They [the junta] put them on a pedestal and now they're the ones having a problem, " grins one local imam.

We cannot convene the conference in major cities such as Rangoon, Mandalay or Taunggyi as it would raise tensions between us and the junta.

Among this year's failures, Asean made no headway in persuading Burma to end the junta's egregious human rights abuses.

The junta may use drugs suppression to justify an assault -- and perhaps get more than it bargained for.

The junta's order reduced the sentences of two women who lived with Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months' house arrest each.

In Thailand, the new military junta issued broad censorship orders for broadcast outlets.

The junta refused. So the monks took to the streets of Yangon and other cities in their thousands, marching and chanting prayers.

The action of the ruling junta have been criticized in the press.

The Burmese junta's refusal to allow access to relief teams is causing frustration even among its friends.

Some NMSP leaders believe the ceasefire agreement will be revoked if the junta uses force against them.

The Kachin rebels have opened 67 offices as points of liaison with the junta since the ceasefire agreement 16 years ago.

The junta's leader, Than Shwe, is also said to be anxious to protect his family and its fortune after he departs.

Some reports say the Kang Nam 1 is carrying missile parts; others that it is shipping mostly small arms to the junta in Myanmar.

If they [DKBA] want to fight, they should fight directly with the junta troops. They should not fight in urban areas.

The junta arrested a handful of soldiers last month, accusing them of preparing a counter-coup.

The junta tried its utmost to thwart the relatively benign outcome that now seems possible.

July 1989: Suu Kyi, an increasingly outspoken critic of the junta, and her deputy, Tin Oo, are put under house arrest.

Subsequently, the junta elected government will hand over power.

The ruling junta in Myanmar announced that a referendum on a draft new constitution would be held on May 10th.

Aid workers waited for visas and the junta haggled about import duties on emergency supplies.

He assured these things will be OK because [Burmese junta chief] Than Shwe has also given his approval.

kasaganahan: We must sustain the public outcry and outrage over the junta's recent verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi.

That seems unlikely, given the junta's record of unmitigated repression.

and Argentina's World Cup winners in 1978 received plenty of backing from the ruling military junta.

During the past month, the junta has tighten security in the town and reenforced troops.

Days later the DKBA and the colonel launched a joint offensive with junta forces against the KNU's 7th Brigade.

Repressive patriarchy is not exclusive to the Taliban, nor is it simply foisted on Afghan society by a minority religious junta.

The middle classes are favourably disposed to wards the new military junta.

The NLD won an overwhelming victory in the last elections in 1990, but the junta refused to accept the result.

propelahead: I consider Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction by the Burmese military junta a load of crap.

This week it held its first high-level contact with the junta for nearly a decade.

When they run their new banks, we're [Burmese banker] still unsure whether they will get favoured treatment from the junta.

For instance, in Guinea the syndicate came to the rescue of the junta.

General Eulogio Cantillo, who headed the military Junta during brief hours of control before Senor Piedra took over, is a career soldier.

But Myanmar'stragic recent history suggests that when an immovable junta meets unstoppableprotests, much blood is spilled.

Since its formation, the USDA has become a main actor in many infamous events under the junta's military rule.

Together with Jorge Videla and Orlando Agosti, Massera formed the junta that ruled Argentina.

The Burmese junta says the new constitution is a step in what the generals say is a roadmap to democracy.

But few in Bangladesh harbour hopes of fairness or humanity from the junta.

That, too, began in economic disgruntlement when the junta abruptly cancelled high-value banknotes.

The vote is the first since a 1990 landslide win by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's party that was never recognised by the junta.

No wonder the Burmese junta gazed admiringly at Indonesia.

The junta has set a deadline of April 28 for the cease-fire groups to accept the BGF plan, or be declared illegal organizations.

The reasons for the junta's sudden haste are typically murky.

The ethnic rebels are unwilling to toe the junta's line before the political imbroglio is solved.

A military junta has ruled Myanmar since 1962 and preparing to hold its first elections in 20 years, but no date has been announced.

Yet the junta rejected most foreign offers of assistance.

Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma, where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear.

The junta has promised to hold polls in 2010 and return the country to semi-civilian rule.

The Burmese junta has recently tightened security in the area, according to Burmese traders on the border.

As in the past, the world's initial response to the junta's violence was marked by bickering and point-scoring.

The 88 students group members were immediately arrested by the Junta.

American leaders have insisted the junta honour the 1990 election result and step aside.

That makes it hard to write a book whose central question is why the junta behaved so callously.

However, pressure from America will not make the junta yield.

The NMSP and DKBA have all rejected the junta's order to transform their troops in a border guard force.

It is also well-known for the grandiose martyr cemetery and solemn Taixu Palace which is the cradleland of Quanzhen Junta , Taoism of China.

They have also threatened, in effect, to excommunicate the junta by refusing to accept alms from them.

warlockp: the military junta in Myanmar has nothing to do but harrass Aung San Suu Kyi.

Said an onlooker who didn't want to be identified for fear of reprisal from the junta.

Until last year, Myanmar had been led by an oppressive military junta.

That means avoiding the risk of feeding the junta's paranoia.

Niger's junta has officially handed over to newly elected President Mahamadou Issoufou - 14 months after seizing power.

DKBA Brigades 7 and 9, however, appear to be accepting the junta's BGF order.

A military junta took control of the country .

Almost two decades later, more than 2, 000 opponents of the junta remain in Burmese prisons.

So it too might possibly seek to stay the junta's hand.

Some members of the governing party, which is led by former generals of the junta, sought to play down the visit.

The junta has also shut itself off economically.

The ballot was rigged to favour the junta's candidates.

The Burmese junta ordered the NMSP to form a border guard force in June 2009.

Huge hopes were raised by her freedom in 1995, when the junta allowed the world's media in to meet her.

Like junta head Snr-Gen Than Shwe, Wang Jairui worked in the postal department during the past.

But in order to do so, the military junta must allow our disaster assessment teams into the country.

However, many of the groups have rejected the junta's request.

Suu Kyi's party won a landslide majority in the 1990 election, the result of which was not honored by the junta.

As in the past, the world's initial response to the junta's violence was marked by bickeringand point-scoring.

The junta's persecution of Muslims has been extreme.

According to the NMSP, if the junta sets up any military bases, the ceasefire agreement of 1995 will be broken.

Even if theregime does crumble and the junta stuffs its bags with gemstones and heads forexile, Myanmar'stroubles would still be daunting.

The sentence means she will play no part in elections the military junta has promised to hold early next year.

On April 19th 1810 a local junta overthrew the Spanish governor in Caracas.

Niger junta: 4 top officials fired for coup plot.

Other junta leaders including Htay Oo, Kyaw Hsan, U Thaung met with Campbell in Naypyidaw on Sunday.

The Argentine junta fell in 1983; Brazil moved to democracy in 1985.

After the ruling military junta agrees to give up power, Bill Clinton sends in 20, 000 U. S. troops in 1994.

On November 7th the junta staged the first elections for 20 years.

Second, that might in theory allow her and her party to take part in the election the junta is holding next year.

Because the military junta will do whatever it can to destroy our unity.

International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta in Chile;

Internet Censorship in Thailand - The secret internet censorship lists of Thailand's military junta

Government Junta of National Reconstruction of Nicaragua ;

The junta's policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina's novelists;

What is the motive of the Junta for handing out these ridiculously long sentences? Khun Tun explains

Agreement between the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the self-proclaimed military junta;

Coordinator of the Government Junta of National Reconstruction;

Junta of the Cartagena Agreement;

Signs of Rifts Appearing in Argentina ' s Junta

The junta incurs the powerful clergy's wrath