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Topic: Prime Minister of Burma

	Burma (09/06)
		Burma remains a primarily agricultural economy with 55% of GDP derived from agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and forestry.
		Published estimates of Burma's foreign trade (particularly on the import side) are greatly understated because of the volume of off-book, fl-market, illicit, and unrecorded border trade.
		Burma is also a primary source of amphetamine-type stimulants in Asia, producing hundreds of millions of tablets annually.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35910.htm (4512 words)

	Burma (Myanmar): Why the Prime Minister was sacked?
		In the case of Burma, ruled by a military junta it is a rule and no exception.
		On becoming prime minister of Burma, he announced the seven-step "road map to democracy" that was supposed to culminate in free elections.
		Bernard Bot, the foreign minister of the Netherlands, which now holds the presidency of the EU, summed it up, in the context of Burma’s participation in ASEM despite European objections, that Europeans should see the relationship with Asia as more than "a zero-sum choice between human rights and trade".
	www.saag.org /papers12/paper1150.html (1563 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for burma
		Burma Road in China and Myanmar, extending from the Myanmarese railhead of Lashio to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China.
		Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-1979, British admiral; great-grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle of Philip Mountbatten, duke of Edinburgh.
		He fought in Burma (present-day Myanmar; 1852-53), the Crimea (1854-56), India (1857-58), and China (1860), and was an observer in the American Civil War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=burma&StartAt=1 (596 words)

	Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Burma (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2004)
		Burma has more child soldiers than any other country in the world, and its forces have used extrajudicial execution, rape, torture, forced relocation of villages, and forced labor in campaigns against rebel groups.
		Burma has more child soldiers than any other country in the world, accounting for approximately one-fourth of the 300,000 children currently believed to be participating in armed conflicts across the globe.
		Burma is believed to have an estimated 350,000 soldiers in its national army.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2005/01/13/burma9826.htm (1699 words)

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		Burma was a British colony from 1886 to 1948.
		It was colonized because Burma was known by the Europeans as the "Golden Land" of Asia, full of gem mines, forests full of precious teak, as well as abundant agricultural land and many deep-water harbors.
		A period of parliamentary democracy emerged, but this golden moment was brief, for Burma was continually embroiled in civil war, and in 1962 the Prime Minister of Burma was overthrown in a military coup by General Ne Win.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~pennenv/greentimes/spring97/burma.html (856 words)

	Don't Let Burma Slide
		And in Thailand, except for statements urging the Burmese government to return the situation to "normalcy," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra continues his support for the Burmese military, harassing Burmese exiles and dissidents in Thailand while promoting investment in Burma.
		Burma's senior general, Than Shwe, is very tough, detests Suu Kyi and is not easily susceptible to outside pressure, while his government focuses on solidifying relations with neighboring nations.
		Her freedom keeps alive the possibility of political change in Burma, but there is a long way to go to achieve it.
	www.countercurrents.org /burma-abramowitz220703.htm (900 words)

	Thai Prime Minister Dismisses Burma Coup Rumors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thailand's Prime Minister says rumors of a coup in neighboring Burma are not true, and a visit to Rangoon next week by his foreign minister will go ahead as planned.
		Prime Minister Thaksin was speaking at the first of what he said would be regular news conferences aimed at explaining government policies.
		The prime minister acknowledged that the number of attacks has not declined, but said the situation was improving.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/bm/2005-08-25-voa8.html (492 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Burma was the launching pad of Bose?s campaign to liberate India, riding piggyback on the Japanese army.
		It was headed by Ba Maw, a former prime minister of Burma, with the 36-year-old U Nu as foreign minister and the 28-year-old Aung San its defence minister.
		Burma, he was overnight transformed into a stooge of the Japanese occupation army.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050520/asp/opinion/story_4760128.asp (1194 words)

	disinformation \| drug war: burma: 8/8/88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Burma was, in many ways, an artificial conflation of the British, combining ethnic groups that had not traditionally shared a government.
		Just as he was set to assume the Prime Ministership, in July 1947, Aung San was assassinated, leaving Burma's strong territorial minorities facing a death squad central army, the probable author of the asassination, and a weak central government.
		The Burma Army settled into the role of central wholesaler, issuing franchises to all the major players in control of opium-growing territory, using its KKY militia as trucking convoys for its franchisees.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id871/pg1 (1127 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Counterattack
		And inside Burma, the growing phenomenon of internal displacement evidences a people who live in fear and are ruled by force.
		Proponents of engagement with Burma, who wrongly believe the SPDC can be swayed to undertake political and economic reforms through dialogue alone, claim that the people hurt by sanctions are the very ones we are trying to help.
		The NLD and Burma's ethnic minorities must have a seat at the negotiating table, and the phony efforts by the SPDC to hold a sham constitutional convention must be roundly denounced.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501060130/burma_vpt.html (856 words)

	Burma: A Cultural Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Burma finally became independent from Britain in 1948, with U Nu - a member of General Aung San's cabinet - as the first prime minister of Burma.
		She was released in July 1995 and remains a critic of SLORC in Burma, though her movements are greatly restricted.
		The effects of women's dislocation in Burma and as refugees in other countries include rape and violence, forced labour, prostitution, and trafficking of Burmese women for the sex industry in Thailand.
	www.geog.ubc.ca /metropolis/burma/culture.html (1625 words)

	Burmese cartoons from the New Era Journal
		U Tin Maung Win was one of the leaders of the secret All Burma Student Association which was formed in 1963 to oppose the military rule of General Ne Win shortly after the suppression of the July 1962 student uprising at the University of Rangoon in which hundreds of students were killed.
		Jailed from 1965 to 1968, U Tin Maung Win's continuing political activities forced him to flee Burma for Thailand, where he was very active in the opposition-in-exile movement known as the Parliamentary Democracy Party (PDP), which was headed by the democratically elected but deposed prime minister of Burma, U Nu.
		Soon after Burma achieved independence from Britain in 1948, the new government was confronted by political and ethnic insurrections.
	www.iisg.nl /collections/burmacartoons/intro.php (831 words)

	Prime Minister of Burma (Myanmar) - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Prime Minister of Burma (Myanmar) - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		(1907-1995), first prime minister (1948-1958 and 1960-1962) of independent Burma (now known as Myanmar).
		He was born in Wakema and educated at...
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210111449_1.1/Nu_U.html (34 words)

	Burma Remains Contentious Issue for Region, U.S.
		Oct 15, 2003: Burma will remain a major issue of contention between the United States and Asia's leaders in the coming weeks, after South-east Asian governments indicated willingness to give Rangoon some room to prove that its road map is indeed in the offing.
		Malaysia's outgoing prime minister Mahathir Mohamad used the opportunity of his meeting with Khin Nyunt to remind the regime that ASEAN expects Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi and resume the national reconciliation process as soon as possible.
		"Prime Minister Khin Nyunt is a very simple and honest man who is looking forward to turning his country into a real democratic one," Win Aung said.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2003/news-in-oct/15-oct03-16.htm (1005 words)

	Burmanet » 2004 » October » 19
		Burma’s prime minister Khin Nyunt has reportedly been ousted from office and placed under house arrest.
		Burma’s Prime Minister and Chief of Military Intelligence Gen Khin Nyunt has been under house arrest according to sources in Rangoon and a Thai government spokesman.
		Burma has been ruled by a repressive military junta for the last decade and a half, prompting economic stagnation and international condemnation.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2004/10/19 (571 words)

	RFA: Burma Arrests Buddhist Activist Nun
		She went back [to Burma] because she wanted to attend the conference...When she got there, they didn't allow her to attend it.
		Daw Thissawaddy remained in Burma because her father was ill, Daw Uttama said.
		She was detained May 27, Daw Uttama said, and charged under Section 295 and 295 (a) of Burma's criminal code.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/social/2005/07/07/burma_buddhism (666 words)

	Burmese PM ousted in power struggle - World - www.smh.com.au
		Burma's prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, has been dismissed and placed under house arrest in Rangoon on corruption charges in a crude power play by military hardliners.
		Insiders cite a recent cabinet reshuffle, where ministers from Khin Nyunt's faction were replaced with military hardliners, as a clear sign of the shift.
		General Khin Nyunt, who was appointed prime minister in August last year, is not a democrat by any stretch, but he represented the more conciliatory face of the regime.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/19/1097951699025.html (574 words)

	Free Burma: General Info
		Burma was colonized by the British in 1886 and became independent in 1948.
		There was a brief period of parliamentary democracy when U Nu served as Prime Minister until 1962 when he was deposed in a military coup by General Ne Win.
		Burma went from being the "rice bowl of Asia" to the distinction of United Nations Least Developed Country in 1987.
	www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/geninfo.html (876 words)

	The Standard - Burma ouster dashes hope - World Section
		The firing of Burma's prime minister, architect of a tentative "roadmap to democracy'', has dashed faint hopes for an end to military rule and leaves Southeast Asia's policy of constructive engagement in tatters.
		Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda admitted that Jakarta now had "much less hope'' Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi would be freed from house arrest - a situation she has been in for much of the last 15 years.
		The removal of Khin Nyunt, 64, after just over a year as prime minister caused concern at the United Nations over the direction and pace of Burma's sluggish transition to multi-party rule.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/World/FJ21Wd07.html (531 words)

	Internet Filtering in Burma in 2005: A Country Study
		Burma's system of Internet control shows no signs of lessening, and may worsen as it moves to a more sophisticated software product and as the state moves to tighten on-line restrictions.
		Burma demonstrates lesser concern with topics such as gambling and other circumvention methods, such as anonymizers; these topics are either of less concern to the state or it has not yet been able to implement effectively a means of blocking them.
		Burma is a country in Southeast Asia bordered by Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Thailand, the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
	www.opennetinitiative.net /studies/burma (6594 words)

	uutiset: [11.09.2006] STT
		Matti Vanhanen (centre), Finland's prime minister, criticised Burma's ruling junta at the Asia Europe summit (Asem) in Helsinki on Sunday for its slow progress in building democracy.
		But Matti Vanhanen (centre), the Finnish prime minister playing host to the summit, is confident that the new members will only strengthen the significance of Asem, which he described as the prime forum for dialogue between Europe and Asia.
		Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) concurred by saying that there was no problem in the mass arrests.
	uutiset.livejournal.com /73886.html (1897 words)

	Nu, U. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He taught school and then became a leader of the Burmese nationalist movement; he assumed the nationalist title Thakin [lord or master] and was known as Thakin Nu until he attained the honorific U. In 1942, with the growing threat of a Japanese invasion, he was imprisoned by the British.
		Released after the Japanese occupied Burma, he served as foreign minister in the puppet cabinet while organizing an anti-Japanese guerrilla force.
		He resigned in 1956, returned to power in 1957, but was forced to yield to the army, led by General Ne Win, in 1958.
	www.bartleby.com /65/nu/Nu-U.html (318 words)

	U Nu Summary
		Freed in the wake of the Japanese invasion of Burma on 9 December 1941, he subsequently became general secretary of the united Dobama-Sinyetha Party and served in Ba Maw's (1893–1977) government under the Japanese as minister of foreign affairs (1943) and as minister of information (1944).
		As prime minister, U Nu failed to address politically ethnic and Communist insurgency, and he overemphasized Buddhism (the grounds for his electoral appeal) as a solution to national unity at the expense of a more inclusive approach to religions in general.
		He was the first prime minister of Burma between 1948 and 1956, again from 1957 to 1958, and finally between 1960 and 1962.
	www.bookrags.com /U_Nu (4157 words)

	Christians Concerned for Burma
		Then the Burma Army forced the villagers to work these lands for them, to plow the wet rice fields and to plant rice.
		The Burma Army forces civilians to contribute money whenever they celebrate a birthday for a company commander or battalion commander, and their wives and their children.
		After Khin Nyunt became Prime Minister of Burma, he gave a special opportunity to the ceasefire groups to promote their relationship.
	www.prayforburma.org /News/hrr_report_200309_lahu.html (2811 words)

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		Prime Minister Soe Win of Burma is arriving today for a one-day working visit to the Philippines as part of the traditional tour in Asia by new leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced yesterday.
		Burma, which has been ruled by a succession of military juntas for more than four decades, has been criticized for its alleged poor human rights record.
		Burma's continued detention of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been an embarrassment for ASEAN which has nonetheless not confronted the internationally reviled regime, believing instead in "constructive engagement" in dealing with the military rulers in Rangoon.
	www.rebound88.net /05/feb/20.html (1620 words)

	India Through the Burmese Eyes
		The people of Burma knows that this support was born out of the spontaneous support from the ordinary citizens which is the most important factor in democracy.
		According to a report of the India Home Ministry, Burma is home to as many as 12 militant groups of the North East India.
		For our brother Indian people, it is important to pay close attention to their government’s policy towards Burma, because the pursuit of an amoral realpolitik strategy towards neighboring countries by its rulers can one day turn inward and consume their own democratic rights and aspirations.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2002/news-in-aug/08-aug02-06.htm (932 words)

	Burma thumbs its nose at ASEAN policy - World - www.theage.com.au
		The brash decision by Burma's military junta to extend the house arrest of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi while an ASEAN meeting is still in progress highlights how ineffective the policy of constructive engagement by ASEAN and Australia has been.
		Prime Minister John Howard, in Laos for the Australia-New Zealand ASEAN summit, did not condemn the regime yesterday, saying only he was "critical" of the decision to extend Ms Suu Kyi's detention.
		When the Suu Kyi issue surfaced on Monday, Burma's Prime Minister Soe Win, who stands accused of orchestrating the deadly attack on her convoy last year, told Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, he could not confirm the reports.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Burma-thumbs-its-nose-at-ASEAN-policy/2004/11/30/1101577482687.html?from=storylhs (506 words)

	POLITICS-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Facade of Unity Unravels over Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		According to Indonesia's foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa, Burma was asked at the ASEAN summit to clarify media reports that it had extended Suu Kyi's arrest for another year.
		Many Burma observers are frustrated especially given the fact that at last year's summit in the Indonesian resort of Bali, ASEAN leaders had publicly called for Suu Kyi's release and secured a guarantee from Burma's then prime minister Khin Nyunt that the regime was serious about democratic reforms.
		Burma joined ASEAN in 1997 despite misgivings by some governments and activists in and out of the region, but ASEAN countries said membership would allow its 'constructive engagement' policy to slowly encourage Rangoon to open up its political system.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26585 (1006 words)

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