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	Myanmar - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Myanmar, officially, Union of Myanmar, republic in Southeast Asia, bounded on the west by Bangladesh; on the northwest by India’s Assam State; on the northeast by China’s Yunnan Province; on the east by Laos and Thailand; and on the southwest by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
		Myanmar’s richest soils are found in a narrow alluvial strip along the Bay of Bengal, where mountain streams irrigate the land in the wide Irrawaddy and Sittang river valleys.
		Most of Myanmar’s larger towns and cities are river ports; Yangon and Pegu are near the mouths of the Irrawaddy River, Bassein is on one of the mouths of the Irrawaddy, Mandalay is on the upper Irrawaddy near the branching of the Chindwin River, and Moulmein is located at the mouth of the Salween River.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761574495__1/Myanmar.html (9533 words)

	Myanmar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In E Myanmar on the Shan Plateau is the Shan State, home of the Shans, a Tai people closely related to the Thai who, at 10% of the population, are Myanmar's largest minority.
		In the elections of 1951-52 the AFPFL triumphed.
		Myanmar moved toward closer political and economic relations with neighboring India and Thailand in the 1990s, and in 1999 it was accepted as a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-myanmar.html (2697 words)

	Myanmar - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Myanmar was governed according to the provisions of the constitution of 1948 until the coup d’état of 1962, after which the existing form of government was eradicated.
		The core of Myanmar’s central government is the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), which was formed in 1997 when the SLORC was dissolved.
		The administration of Myanmar is highly centralized, with a chain of command passing from the SLORC to the local LORCs to the village level.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761574495___27/Myanmar.html (640 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Myanmar junta spokesman Tin Win said Suu Kyi was taken into custody late yesterday after hundreds of her supporters clashed with opponents, leaving four people dead and as many as 50 injured.
		Myanmar officials did not say what sparked the violence in the northern town of Yaway Oo, about 560 km north of the capital, and denied media reports that her vehicle had been fired on by an unidentified gunman yesterday night.
		Suu Kyi, whose NLD won 1990 elections in Myanmar by a landslide but was denied power by the military, was on a month-long tour of northern Myanmar and had been due to return to the capital on June 4.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030601/asp/foreign/story_2025021.asp (462 words)

	An Introduction to Myanmar
		Travel to Myanmar is as a result a rather vexed moral question, as the bulk of tourist revenue falls into the government's coffers.
		Myanmar's coastline defines the eastern shore of the Bay of Bengal, running from the Bangladesh border in the northwest down to the Malay Peninsula and Thai territory in the southeast.
		Myanmar's population includes dozens of different racial and ethnic groups, including the Mon, Burmans, Kachins, Chins, Shans, Rakhine, and Karens, each of which have historically dominated a particular area of the country.
	www.geographia.com /myanmar (1617 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Myanmar resumes long-stalled constitutional convention
		NYAUNG HNA PIN, Myanmar – Myanmar's military leaders reopened a long-delayed convention for drafting a constitution Tuesday after slamming the party of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for boycotting the proceedings.
		The NLD demands that the government honor its 1990 election victory and conduct a dialogue with the party.
		Myanmar has been without a functioning constitution since 1988 when a 1974 charter was suspended after the military violently suppressed mass pro-democracy protests.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20061010-0642-myanmar.html (502 words)

	Country Report: Myanmar (Burma)
		Myanmar, located south of India and China, was long considered the jewel of Asia.
		Myanmar remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but the natural environment is ripe for exploitation.
		In an unprecedented move, the International Labor Organization imposed sanctions on Myanmar in November after their failure to end the use of forced labor; the ILO has called on governments, workers, and employers to review their investments in Myanmar.
	www.iabolish.com /slavery_today/country_reports/mm.html (1023 words)

	• UNIFEM - A Portal on Women, Peace & Security • (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In most countries, elections are planned a few years after the signing of a peace agreement to give citizens a chance to choose the leaders that will take them into the next phase of reconstruction.
		Her Royal Highness, Princess Marie Ranariddh stated that, “At the 1993 {Cambodian} National Elections, women formed 55% of the total electorate; by participating in the peace process in large numbers, women were instrumental in bringing back the peace process to a war-torn nation”.
		As a consequence, the “success” of an election may be judged not so much on the basis of the criteria, which normally apply in democratic countries, but on the extent to which it has contributed to the political process of ending conflict.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /issues/elections/election.htm (4534 words)

	Politics of Myanmar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Myanmar (Burma) takes place in a framework of an authoritarian dictatorial republic which is controlled by the military (Tatmadaw) in the form of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
		Aung San Suu Kyi, whose opposition party won 83% of parliamentary seats in a 1990 national election, but who was prevented from becoming prime minister by the military, has earned international praise as an activist for the return of democratic rule to Myanmar.
		Myanmar is divided into 7 divisions and 7 states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Myanmar (1057 words)

	Myanmar - Union of Myanmar - Country Profile - Burma - Asia
		Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, formerly known as Burma.
		Ethnic groups: according to Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are 8 Major National Ethnic Races in Myanmar, which all comprises different ethnic groups: the Kachin, the Kayah, the Kayin, the Chin, the Mon, the Bamar, the Rakhine, and the Shan.
		Languages: Burmese; Myanmar is a union of 135 ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/myanmar.htm (1215 words)

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		The elections in Myanmar (Burma) were carried through on a wave of hope and expectation, even wishful thinking about the assumed immediate transfer of power, though many political leaders such as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Nu were either in jail or under house arrest.
		In terms of freedom of speech, publication and association in the run-up to the elections, the description of “free and fair” is wide of the mark, though like the elections which the caretaker military regime organised in 1960, the actual voting arrangements on the day were conducted without pressures or intimidation.
		The difficulties in the case of Myanmar are far greater than in other countries of the region because of the dominance of military activity in the country ever since independence in 1948 and because of the much higher and all-pervasive profile of the Tatmadaw in national affairs.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/DT-1990_Elections.doc (5769 words)

	Myanmar: Sanctions Won't Work
		America's misguided sanctions against Myanmar, for example, have done nothing in the past year to resolve the country's political and economic crisis.
		Myanmar could start on such a constructive path with Ms Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and the NLD's agreement to a gradual political opening and participation in the current constitutional convention.
		The US and Europe should listen more closely to Myanmar's neighbours, which are keen for Yangon to consolidate the delicate peace processes and create a dynamic of political accommodation under a new constitution.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=4295 (942 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		WASHINGTON - The seven-year-long stalemate between the Myanmar military regime and the country's democratic opposition plus Western supporters needs to be reassessed and a pragmatic new approach undertaken, however distasteful - conditional engagement with the junta, according to an international conflict-resolution group.
		Myanmar has ranked high on the global human rights agenda since the NLD won a landslide victory in the 1990 elections - the first free national elections in Myanmar since the military first took power in 1962.
		The report also noted that Myanmar's Southeast Asian neighbors will themselves be under greater pressure over the next 18 months to push for reform because of Myanmar's scheduled assumption of the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2006.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FD28Ae08.html (1164 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. rights envoy visiting Myanmar - April 3, 2001
		Myanmar generals had already begun meeting behind closed doors with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while talks between Thai and Myanmar officials to discuss border issues began Monday after a two year suspension.
		Myanmar's junta never allowed Pinheiro's predecessor, Mauritian judge Rajsoomer Lallah, who took the job in 1996, to visit the country, accusing him of being unfairly critical of the regime.
		Myanmar dissidents have said they fear the current rounds of talks with international communities are merely designed to avert criticism from the military junta.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/02/myanmar.un.visit (470 words)

	Myanmar Case Perpetuates False Analogies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But the case hinders the ability of the United States to persuade Myanmar's military junta to relax its repression of political and civil rights—not because it holds out the possibility of further sanctions, but because it perpetuates a false analogy.
		In contrast, Myanmar was recently admitted to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, strengthening its legitimacy in the region.
		At present, our Myanmar policy is about what worked (or what we think worked) in another country, and, because of the constitutional controversy, it is about us.
	www.brookings.org /views/op-ed/dalpino/20000417.htm (782 words)

	Myanmar court suspends Suu Kyi sentence over dispute ( Reuters ) February 22, 2003
		A Myanmar court sentenced pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday to one week in jail or a 500 kyat fine over a domestic dispute but the sentence was later suspended.
		Suu Kyi's NLD won 1990 elections in Myanmar by a landslide but was denied power by the ruling military.
		Myanmar has been ruled by the military in various guises for most of the period since its independence from Britain in 1948.
	www.burmatoday.net /newsarchive_03/news_030222_suukyi_cases.htm (1026 words)

	MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
		Myanmar is a union of 135 ethnic groups With their own languages and dialects.
		The major races are Bamar, the Chill, the Kachin, the Shan, the Kayah, the Kayin, the Mon and the Rakhine The name Myanmar embraces all the ethnic groups.
		The population of Myanmar is over 47 million with the Bamar, the majority race, making up about 70 percent 80 percent of the people of Myanmar are Theravada Buddhism.
	www.modins.net /MyanmarInfo/facts/detailhistory.htm (1082 words)

	Myanmar - Suu Kyi - Philippines - Worldpress.org
		Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, must be the least interesting and least-known country in Asia to Filipinos, despite its being a member of the ASEAN, and despite its being a country where Filipinos can travel without a visa.
		The Myanmar junta blames Suu Kyi and the NLD for the violence.
		Myanmar’s membership was similarly supported by such countries as Singapore and Malaysia, despite its driving a wedge between ASEAN and the European Union, which appropriately regarded Myanmar membership in ASEAN with distaste and dismay.
	worldpress.org /Asia/1189.cfm (1230 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		There is no question that Aung Sun Suu Kyi and her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won Myanmar's general elections handsomely in 1990, and the military's nullification of the elections, which would have put the NLD into power, was wrong.
		Opium cultivation this season in Myanmar is estimated at 44,200 hectares, representing a significant cumulative decline of 73% when compared with the 163,000 hectares under cultivation in 1996.
		Myanmar is the key to a smooth infrastructural land-based link-up among Central Asia in the west, Japan in the east and Russia in the north.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FJ22Ae05.html (1654 words)

	Democratic Voice of Burma
		Analysts had seen his avoidance of Myanmar as a slap to the junta, and an effort to avoid uncomfortable comparisons with the military dictatorship.
		Surayud last week said that Thailand's post-coup government and Myanmar were "in the same shoes", but pointed to the one-year timeline given by the Thai junta for holding elections and urged Myanmar to also move toward democracy.
		Thailand is increasingly turning to Myanmar to tap the country's vast natural resources to fuel its own growing economy.
	english.dvb.no /news.php?id=8272 (316 words)

	JURIST - Myanmar [Burmese] Law
		Burma [officially renamed Myanmar in 1989] is ruled by a highly authoritarian military regime.
		In 1990 the junta permitted a relatively free election for a parliament to which it had promised to transfer power.
		At year's end, the Government continued to hold 20 members-elect of Parliament from the 1990 elections and over 800 NLD supporters as part of a government effort to prevent the parliament elected in 1990 from convening.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/myanmar.htm (1338 words)

	Elections in Myanmar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Myanmar's government is a military dictatorship, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), which is essentially made up of military heads.
		The first (and only) elections to the People's Assembly (Pyit-thu Hlut-taw) under the new military (then renamed the SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council)) regime were held 27 May 1990.
		The major opposition party, the National League for Democracy, managed to gain a majority (392) of the 492 seats; thus, under a parliamentary system, the NLD would be able to form a government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Myanmar (181 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A teary-eyed Arroyo said she made the surprise decision for the sake of national unity and regretted that there was too much politicking, bickering and divisiveness ahead of the polls, which she feared were dampening the country's future, news agencies said.
		Myanmar and Malaysia may be the next focus for women Presidential or Prime Ministerial candidates, with Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratic opposition leader in Myanmar in a leading position.
		In the event of fair and free elections in Myanmar, Su Qui has the potential of overrunning the military rulers and wins the leadership of the country, thus perpetuating the presence of woman leaders in the region.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2003-01/01/article09.shtml (814 words)

	The Impact of the Internet on Myanmar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Myanmar is in South East Asia and is surrounded by Bangladesh, India, China and Thailand.
		Myanmar exports teak and rice, but remains isolated from the other South East Asian countries, as it faces U.S.-led sanctions for its military government's oppressive politics.
		Furthermore, the Myanmar government often uses the passive tense when describing the action undertaken by the students [6].
	www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue6_5/krebs (4446 words)

	Council for a Community of Democracies
		Although it swept the free elections in Myanmar in 1990, the military government nullified the results of the election and has continued to hold political power in the country.
		In 2000, unable to leave Myanmar, Suu Kyi taped remarks in support of the meeting in Warsaw, Poland, that established the Community of Democracies (click here to read a transcript of the video).
		In response to Suu Kyi’s arrest in 2003, the Convening Group of the Community of Democracies released a statement condemning the arrest and calling for her release (read this statement on page 11).
	www.ccd21.org /news/myanmar_arrests.htm (284 words)

	CNN.com - Aung San Suu Kyi honors assassinated father - July 19, 2000
		YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A fl shawl wrapped around her shoulders, a solemn Aung San Suu Kyi laid three baskets of red roses and white daisies Wednesday at the tomb of her father, Myanmar's independence hero, on the anniversary of his assassination.
		The opposition leader, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her resistance to Myanmar's military-led government, was under house arrest from 1989-1995 and still has her movements heavily restricted.
		Aung San, the founder of Myanmar's army, is respected as a national hero by the ruling military regime for his leading role in the struggle for independence from Britain.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/southeast/07/19/myanmar.martyr.ap (446 words)

	Myanmar: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The ethnic origins of modern Myanmar (known historically as Burma) are a mixture of Indo-Aryans, who began pushing into the area around 700 B.C., and the Mongolian invaders under Kublai Khan who penetrated the region in the 13th century.
		Myanmar - Myanmar or Burma, officially Union of Myanmar, republic (2005 est.
		Myanmar: History - History Early History through World War II Myanmar's early history is mainly the story of the...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107808.html (1251 words)

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