Rebels sign truce, Burma jails Rohingya, and more...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

// 3 - 9 December 2011

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Shan rebels, govt sign ceasefire

Government negotiators offer economic development and joint efforts against drugs as part of historic ceasefire with Shan rebels

Bangladesh PM arrives in Burma

Sheikh Hasina leads most senior-level Bangladesh delegation to Burma in eight years, and is greeted by foreign minister at the airport

Burma jails Rohingya on immigration charges

Boatload of 63 refugees destined for Malaysia is brought ashore by Burmese authorities who hand each one and a half year terms

India-backed dam ‘to displace 45,000’

Demonstrators gather outside Indian parliament to protest Indiai's financing of Tamanthi dam, which will flood an area the size of Delhi

Burma fourth top jailer of journalists

Report sobers rosy assessments of Burma's reforms by claiming democracy remains out of reach until journalists are freed

A new, albeit ambiguous, chapter opens in US-Burma relations

ZAW NAY AUNG

With a new chapter opening in US-Burma relations, Clinton must take the lead in pressing harder for substantial reform in the country

Is the US dabbling in the darker side of diplomacy?

FRANCIS WADE
If the US embraces President Thein Sein’s rabble of military officials and cronies too soon, it risks leaving a tainted legacy in Burma, and not for the first time

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