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New UK Burma sanctions welcomed by Burma Campaign UK
Student protesters jostle with police at barricades set up by police at the students protest site in Letpadan, Bago Region on March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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11 March 2015
US condemns crackdown on Letpadan student rally
The United States condemned a violent police crackdown on a student rally in Myanmar on...
Policemen holding shields as they block the road in front of Yangon City Hall after a crackdown on a students' protest demanding an amendment to National Education Bill in Yangon, Myanmar, March 5, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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11 March 2015
Official inquiry to be held into protest crackdown
Myanmar state media has announced an inquiry into a Yangon protest crackdown, the first...
Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko speaks at the Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons meeting at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw on December 29, 2014. Photo: MNA
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11 March 2015
Myanmar prepares own human rights report for UN
The leading committee for compiling the human rights report on Myanmar held their second...
A group of students and activists came onto the streets of Yangon at 2 pm in sympathy with the protesters who had been beaten in a melee of violence by police earlier in the day in Letpadan. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
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11 March 2015
Police move fast to crack down on Yangon protest
Riot police were quick to crack down on a march in Hledan market in Yangon, beating...
Police moved in to beat and arrest student protesters at Aung Myay Man Buddhist Monastery, Letpadan, Bago Region on March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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10 March 2015
Police beat students in protest crackdown
Letpadan - Baton-wielding Myanmar police beat student activists March 10 as they broke up...
Students and monks protest at Letpadan, Bago region on March 9, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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10 March 2015
Authorities tighten security at Letpadan protest...
Letpadan – The police cordon around student protesters in Letpadan has been tightened,...
Myanmar - on a UK Foreign Office blacklist - may have been a recipient of UK-supplied riot control equipment, according to a UK newspaper report. Here Kosovo police officers fire tear gas during clashes at a demonstration in Pristina, Kosovo, January 27, 2015. Photo: EPA
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10 March 2015
Myanmar on the UK ‘blacklist’ for riot control...
The UK government has approved the sale of £16 million [K16 billion] of crowd-control and...
 A Myanmar woman drives rides a tricycle as she crosses into China at the China-Myanmar, Kyegaung border gate, in Ruili, Yunnan province, China, September 17, 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
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10 March 2015
China’s officials tell Myanmar ‘not to...
Chinese officials recently told a visiting Myanmar delegation not to misunderstand China...
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10 March 2015
Businessman linked to Kokang rebel leader dies in...
A prominent ethnic Chinese businessman with family ties to the leader of the Kokang rebel...
Civilians wearing red armbands with the word “Duty” on them launched a violent crackdown on activists and students protesting outside the Yangon City Hall on March 5, 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/Mizzima
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09 March 2015
Red armband crackdown lawful, says Yangon Region...
Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe said in the meeting with the 88-Generation Peace...
Questions have been raised about the visits of the former UK prime minister to Myanmar. Mr Tony Blair (R), former Prime Minister of United Kingdom, shows a thumb up as he walks out of the 22nd World Economic Forum in Nay Pyi Taw  2013. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
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09 March 2015
Speculation over former UK PM’s ‘advisory role’...
Twitter and Facebook generated some buzz during the last few days over speculation...
Police and civilians with red arm bands attack non-violent protesters outside Yangon City Hall on March 5, 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/Mizzima
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06 March 2015
Protesters attacked, beaten and arrested in Yangon
Security police and civilians wearing red armbands attacked activists and students...

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