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    Supporters gather in front of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy headquarters on Sunday, in Yangon, Myanmar.
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    Myanmar Election: Suu Kyi's Party Poised For Second Term

    Nov 12, 2020
    Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy appear set to remain in power after Sunday's general election, which is largely seen as a referendum on Suu Kyi's first term.
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    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, casts an early ballot for the Nov. 8 general election in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Oct. 29.
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    Suu Kyi's Party Expected To Win Myanmar Election Amid Minorities' Disenfranchisement

    Nov 07, 2020
    Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won in a 2015 landslide and is expected to win again. But with voting denied or canceled in some areas, more than a million voters are disenfranchised.
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    Freelance miners dig for raw jade at a company site in Hpakant, Myanmar, in 2018.
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    How A Beloved Gemstone Became A Symbol Of Environmental Tragedy In Myanmar

    Sep 29, 2020
    Decades of mining for jade has left the landscape desolate. Local activists want to make a change — but can they stand up to the powerful companies that dominate the industry?
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    A landslide in Myanmar's northern Kachin state killed scores of people.
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    Landslide At Myanmar Jade Mine Kills At Least 162

    Jul 02, 2020
    The death toll makes the disaster the worst known in the jade mining industry, surpassing an accident in 2015 that killed 113 people.
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    An Internet shutdown that began a year ago in parts of Myanmar is keeping some villages completely unaware of the global pandemic. The restrictions apply to multiple townships in the Rakhine and Chin states, site of an ongoing conflict between the countr
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    Parts Of Myanmar Unaware Of COVID-19 Due To Internet Ban, Rights Advocates Say

    Jun 24, 2020
    Human Rights Watch says the restrictions, put in place last year on Rakhine and Chin states, are leaving some unaware of the pandemic. The restrictions are said to affect more than 1 million people.
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    Myanmar military deputy Commander in Chief, Vice Senior Gen. Soe Win, center, inspects military officers on Armed Forces Day last year. A U.N. human rights monitor is accusing the military of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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    U.N. Envoy Brings New Allegations Of War Crimes Against Myanmar

    Apr 29, 2020
    The outgoing U.N. monitor for human rights says Myanmar's military has attacked civilians in Rakhine and Chin states, including children. Myanmar is also accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
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    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, addresses the International Court of Justice during last month's hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has announced that a decision in the case will be issued next week.
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    U.N. Court: Ruling To Be Issued Next Week In Rohingya Genocide Case

    Jan 15, 2020
    In November, Gambia filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice accusing Myanmar of a brutal crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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    Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.
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    Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denies Charges Of Genocide Against Rohingya Minority

    Dec 11, 2019
    The International Court of Justice is considering whether to grant a provisional measure that would protect Rohingya still living in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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    The senior Myanmar military leaders sanctioned by the U.S. include commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, shown here as he delivered a speech last year.
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    U.S. Sanctions Senior Myanmar Generals Over Rohingya 'Ethnic Cleansing'

    Jul 17, 2019
    "The United States is the first government to publicly take action with respect to the most senior leadership of the Burmese military," the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.
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    Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, pictured on March 11.
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    U.N. Investigator Reports Possible New War Crimes In Myanmar

    Jul 03, 2019
    Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, spoke of civilians being detained, interrogated and dying in the custody of Myanmar's military.
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    Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, in August. Myanmar's top court rejected their appeal Tuesday, letting their seven-year prison term stand.
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    Reuters Journalists Jailed In Myanmar Lose Appeal, Will Stay In Prison

    Apr 22, 2019
    Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were jailed for allegedly violating Myanmar's Official Secrets Act. They claimed they were framed by police after uncovering evidence of a massacre against Rohingya Muslims.
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    Firewood is stacked for sale in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Local residents complain that the Rohingya have cut down all the trees surrounding the camps and burned them in cooking fires.
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    Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees

    Apr 15, 2019
    "We're being outnumbered by the sheer number of the refugee population," says Mohammad Abul Kalam, the head of Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox's Bazar.
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    Children play at a Rohingya refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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    Rohingya Settle In For The Long Haul, Even As Bangladesh Wants Refugees To Go Home

    Apr 05, 2019
    Bangladesh wants a million Rohingya refugees to go back to Myanmar. But 18 months after most of them fled violence, they are too afraid to go back and are making new lives for themselves in camps.
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    Mourners carry the coffin of Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer who was shot dead in 2017. Ko Ni's killer was sentenced to death on Friday.
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    Gunmen Sentenced In The Death Of Myanmar Democracy Advocate Ko Ni

    Feb 15, 2019
    Ko Ni pushed for reform of the country's military-drafted constitution. A Muslim in the predominantly Buddhist country, he had just returned from a Jakarta visit to study interfaith peace.
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    Myanmar Army Maj. Gen. Tun Tun Nyi (left), Maj. Gen. Soe Naing Oo (center) and Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun (right) attend a military press conference on Jan. 18. Myanmar's army said it killed 13 ethnic Rakhine fighters after the armed group carried out deadly
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    Amid Renewed Violence In Myanmar's Rakhine State, Arakan Army Returns To Spotlight

    Jan 27, 2019
    Since December, clashes between Myanmar security forces and the insurgency group have been on the rise. At least 30 have died and thousands have been displaced.
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    Myanmar Border Guard Police in Rakhine state patrol the fence in the "no-man's land" zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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    Insurgents Kill 7 Myanmar Security Forces In Independence Day Attack

    Jan 04, 2019
    Buddhist militants attacked four police posts in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on the day the country celebrates its 1948 independence from Britain.
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    Technology
    Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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    No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics

    Nov 21, 2018
    In an interview with CNN, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that despite calls for his resignation, he is not stepping down.
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    World
    Rohingya refugee children shout slogans during a protest against the repatriation process on Thursday at Unchiprang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh.
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    Plan Stalls To Repatriate Rohingya Refugees

    Nov 15, 2018
    Bangladesh has stressed that it will not repatriate anyone against their will. The plan sparked protests among some refugees, while others reportedly hid within refugee camps.
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    Vice President Mike Pence and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Singapore on Wednesday.
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    Pence Condemns Myanmar's Suu Kyi For Treatment Of Rohingya, Imprisoned Journalists

    Nov 14, 2018
    Speaking at a regional summit in Singapore, the vice president called the persecution of Myanmar's Muslim minority "without excuse." He also called the jailing of two journalists "deeply troubling."
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    Rohingya Hindu refugees stand outside their makeshift shelters at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in January. Bangladesh and Myanmar plan to begin the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled fr
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    Rohingya Repatriation Set To Begin, As Amnesty Revokes Award To Aung San Suu Kyi

    Nov 12, 2018
    A long-planned deportation of refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is set to begin this week. Rohingya are reportedly fleeing refugee camps to avoid being sent back to the country they escaped.
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    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar state counselor, left, speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa last year.
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    Canada's Parliament Votes To Strip Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Of Honorary Citizenship

    Sep 28, 2018
    The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate's international reputation has taken a severe beating over her government's failure to halt atrocities against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
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    Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN 2018 at the National Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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    Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'

    Sep 13, 2018
    Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has come under intense international criticism for her muted response to the army's campaign of terror against the Muslim minority.
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    Kyaw Soe Oo's wife, Chit Su Win, spoke Tuesday at a news conference in Yangon. "I hope the state will have mercy on them," she said.
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    U.S. Officials Condemn Reuters Journalists' Convictions In Myanmar

    Sep 05, 2018
    Vice President Pence said the two journalists should be "commended — not imprisoned" for exposing human rights abuses in Myanmar. They were handed a seven-year prison sentence, inciting global outcry.
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    In the Balukhali 2 refugee camp, three young men have set up a barbershop under a tarp. They picked up their barber skills by trimming each other's hair when they couldn't afford a professional cut.
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    In Bangladeshi Camps, Rohingya Refugees Try To Move Forward With Their Lives

    Aug 30, 2018
    Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost generation.
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    Central Myanmar residents negotiate a flooded road after waters submerged villages.
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    After Dam Failure, Thousands Flee In Myanmar

    Aug 29, 2018
    Floodwaters are washing over residential areas in central Myanmar, driving whole villages of people from their homes. Authorities are conducting search and rescue operations for trapped people.

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