Myanmar

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** FILE ** Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) meets with President Thein Sein at the presidential office in the capital of Naypyitaw in 2010. (Associated Press)

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Aung San Suu Kyi (left), Myanmar's democracy icon, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister Aung Kyi (right) listen to questions from reporters during a press conference after their meeting at Seinleikanthar government guest house on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Prisoners walk out of Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. The government has begun releasing prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political figures. (Associated Press)

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Female prisoners leave Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, after they were released in an amnesty by Myanmar President Thein Sein. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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** FILE ** Prisoners walk out of Myanmar's Insein Prison on Tuesday, May, 17, 2011, after they were granted amnesty by the government. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during the opening ceremony of the Aungsan Jar-mon Library on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, in Thanatpin, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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In this photo released by Democratic Voice of Burma, officials stand in front of a building destroyed by an earthquake in Tarlay, Shan state, Myanmar, Friday, March 25, 2011. The Thursday night quake, measured at a magnitude 6.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey, toppled homes in northeastern Myanmar and killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/DVB, Alinyaung)

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** FILE ** A Myanmar boy fetches drinking water from a lake on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Dala, about 15 km south of Yangon, Myanmar. To solve the growing global water crisis, the United Nations created March 22 as World Water Day, an international day of observance, in 1992. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party say Western sanctions against Myanmar hurt the military junta, not the people, and should continue. (Associated Press)

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Myanmar security police officers check a bus carrying elected representatives towards the parliament building Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar opened its first parliament in more then two decades Monday, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition lawmakers despite the military's tight management of the event. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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A girl sells flowers at a tourist spot in Mandalay, northern Myanmar. Myanmar appeals to travelers with its spectacular landscape and wide offerings from ancient Buddhist monuments to jungle trekking, bucolic villages and beach holidays. (Associated Press)

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Tourists take cycle rickshaws as they visit Dala township in Yangon, Myanmar. The release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in November appears to be opening the way for more tourists by easing concerns that visiting the country is a signal of support for Myanmar's military dictatorship. (Associated Press)

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, shakes hands with Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after their meeting at her home on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar. Mrs. Suu Kyi met for more than an hour with Mr. Nambiar and said she hopes the talks will be the first of many with the world body to solve the country's problems. (Associated Press)

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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers speech to supporters at the headquarters of her National ASSOCIATED PRESS Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, free after seven years of house arrest, addresses thousands of supporters Sunday.

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Protesters display placards and shout slogans during a rally outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, to call on the Philippine Government to "publicly support" a United Nations commission of inquiry into purported crimes against humanity in Burma. On Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, the United States said it will support the commission. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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** FILE ** Karen National Army soldiers stand in formation during Revolution Day ceremonies in Burma in January 2006. The ethnic tribesmen, a minority in Burma, fought against the Japanese in World War II, but were never given their own state as the British had promised.