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...reconciliation with detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta barely made a step down that path to peace, but Suu Kyi told U.N. envoy to Burma Razali Ismail in March that Khin Nyunt was someone she could deal with. After that endorsement, some residents of Rangoon started calling the Prime Minister the "second most popular figure in Burma"?after...
...flee the country. If that happens, I will have to flee with him." They didn't leave fast enough: last month, Win Aung was replaced as Foreign Minister and is believed to be under house arrest. And last week, the Prime Minister was arrested by the army at Rangoon airport shortly after he arrived from Mandalay, where he had spent the day touring development projects. Burma's state-controlled media announced that Khin Nyunt had been permitted to "retire for health reasons." Khin Nyunt is now under house arrest in Rangoon; last Thursday, Burma's new Foreign Minister told diplomats...
...intelligence and its operations closed down. Several hundred intelligence officers were also detained throughout the country, and businesses under military-intelligence control, including the lucrative black markets on the borders, have been shuttered or taken over by the junta. The power struggle barely registered among average Burmese. Life in Rangoon was normal, except for a slightly higher number of troops on the streets. "Nothing really changed in Burma," says a Western diplomat. "The reforms were only ever cosmetic, and done for an international audience." What Khin Nyunt's arrest really demonstrates is that the only real threat to the junta...
...cultured: Wasn’t the a capella jam amazing? You’re independent: Congratulations on doing your own laundry (albeit paid for with Crimson Cash)! And you’re even discovering fine cuisine: isn’t the Kong’s crab rangoon stellar? As you’ve probably figured out, it is written in the stars that you will be successful, popular and one day rich enough to contribute to Harvard’s struggling endowment. Yes, the world really is your oyster...
...DIED. KYI MAUNG, 85, vice chairman and co-founder of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD); in Rangoon. Kyi Maung led the NLD to a landslide victory in Burma's 1990 election after party head Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest?the ruling junta has never honored that electoral result. After the election, Kyi Maung, who had often been detained in the past, was sentenced to 20 years in jail but was released in 1995. He eventually fell out with Suu Kyi over how best to fight the junta...