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    Tagged: protests

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    Jailed anti-mine activist Naw Ohn Hla transferred

    The recently imprisoned Burmese activist Naw Ohn Hla has been transferred to a new jail with better health care facilities, fuelling speculation that she has been refusing food.

    Former rebel leader returns to Burma to mark 8888 anniversary video

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    Former rebel leader returns to Burma to mark 8888 anniversary

    Former members from the All-Burma Students’ Democratic Front are returning to Rangoon to commemorate the mass demonstrations against Ne Win’s dictatorship that were violently suppressed by the military 25 years ago this month

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    Farmers in hiding near Inle Lake as officials crack down on ‘plough protests’

    Locals near Inle Lake have gone into hiding after officials issued warrants for their arrests following a demonstration where the farmers ploughed land that had been confiscated

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    Monks protest in Shan capital after officials demolish monastery

    Monks marched through the streets of Taunggyi in protest after authorities demolished a Buddhist monastery that had allegedly been built on government land

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    Pipeline protestors face jail for ‘unlawful’ assembly

    Ten Arakanese activists, who face up to one year in jail for staging an “unlawful” protest against a controversial China-backed oil and gas pipeline, appeared in court in western Burma on Monday

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    Suu Kyi squares off with protestors for second day

    Aung San Suu Kyi confronted hundreds of disgruntled residents in central Burma on Thursday, as anger continues to mount over her failure to oppose the development of a controversial Chinese-backed mine nearby

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    Govt rejects report alleging use of ‘white phosphorous’ in crackdown

    The Burmese government has questioned the findings of a new report, which alleged that riot police used white phosphorous in a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters last year, and accused its authors of attempting to “influence” the official investigation

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    Protests against controversial Chinese copper mine resume

    Local villagers and activists resumed their demonstrations against a Chinese-backed copper mine in central Burma on Wednesday, as anger continues to grow over the government’s failure to address community grievances over the project

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    Latpadaung activists sentenced, released in Mandalay

    Activists who were charged for protesting against the police’s brutal crackdown on rally sites at Latpadaung Copper Mining Project were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment but walked free today

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    Four gold mine protestors sentenced to jail

    Four Burmese gold mine workers, who were arrested while leading a march to Naypidaw in November, were sentenced to six months imprisonment on Thursday for protesting without permission and instigating public unrest

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    Protesters set up new camps near controversial mine

    Government authorities in Sagain division’s Monywa district have warned locals to shut down new rally camps set up last week to protest against the expansion of the Latpadaung Copper Mining Project

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    Activists call for ‘unconditional release’ of copper mine protesters

    Monks and student activists in Mandalay have called for the release of four protesters who were arrested and hit with charges after participating in demonstrations last week

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    Burma releases eight ‘copper mine’ protesters

    Activists who were arrested after staging a rally calling for the suspension of the controversial Latpadaung copper mine were released today on bail

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    US officials meet monks, protesters behind monastery’s closed doors

    Three US State Department officials met with Buddhist monks at Mandalay’s Masoeyein Monastery yesterday to discuss sectarian tensions in Arakan state and last week’s crackdown at the Latpadaung Copper Mine

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    Protesting gold miners to hold talks with gov’t following crackdown

    The protestors from Moehti Moemi gold mine agreed on Monday to hold formal talks with the Mining Ministry following the arrest of four fellow miners during a march from Rangoon to Naypyidaw on Friday

    Protests against Latpadaung copper mine video

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    Protests against Latpadaung copper mine

    Protesters marched through Rangoon on Monday to urge the government to stop the Latpadaung Copper Mining project – a joint venture between China’s Wangbao and military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic[…]

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    Solitary protestor hit with charges

    The lawyer who staged a one-man demonstration in Prome on 18 October along with two youths who were said to have assisted him have been charged for protesting without permits

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    Locals protest against new power plant

    About 100 people in Tenasserim division’s Kawthaung town protested in the streets on Tuesday morning against a coal power plant that recently became operational

    Gov’t stops Islamic group from opening office in Burma video

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    Gov’t stops Islamic group from opening office in Burma

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    Officials press charges against ‘electricity protestors’

    Activists who joined the widespread protests calling for sufficient electricity supplies in Mandalay in May have been charged by the city’s police for demonstrating without official permission

    Mosque in Arakan state torched amid wider sectarian unrest video

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    Mosque in Arakan state torched amid wider sectarian unrest

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    Locals lock horns with military over land dispute

    Locals in Mandalay division’s Maddaya township near Sale village who are engaged in a land dispute with the Burmese Army’s Air Defence Battalion 1004 have been sued by for trespassing by the group’s commander

    Features

    The protest paradox

    Renewed scrutiny of Burma’s vaunted peaceful assembly bill is underway in the wake of charges leveled against ethnic Kachin protestors this week

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    Farmers, gold miners square off over land dispute

    A stand-off between local farmers in Mandalay division’s Thabeikkyin township and a private mining company is intensifying after rumours are circulating that gold deposits reside in the area

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    Copper and compensation

    [scrollGallery id=27 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Villagers protested against the seizing of more than 7,800 acres of farmland for a copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township[…]

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    Freed copper mine protesters assaulted by police

    Nine out of 12 female farmers, arrested for protesting against a copper mine in Monywa in Sagaing Division earlier this week, claim to have been beaten by the police before being released from jail on Tuesday

    Media News

    Ministry delays interim press council’s debut

    Information Minister Kyaw Hsan has been forced to postpone the formation of Burma’s new interim press council after being deluged with criticism from media organisations and journalists

    News Politics

    Farmer’s rally against land grabs; officials issue warning

    About 300 farmers from Rangoon’s Dagon Seikkan township demonstrated last Friday over land grabbing as an official in Pegu division warned farmers to stop ploughing confiscated land

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    Exiles in Japan back president’s Rohingya plan

    Exiled Burmese democracy activists in Japan demonstrated on Wednesday in a rare show of support of President Thein Sein concerning his plan to expel the Rohingya minority group to third countries

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    Villagers protest army’s arrests

    About a dozen Arakanese villagers in Arakan state’s Kyauktaw township were detained by security forces on Saturday, which prompted a protest from locals demanding their release

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