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U.S. military guard of honor carry a coffin covered with U.S. national flag during a repatriation ceremony at Mandalay International Airport Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Mandalay, central Myanmar. The U.S. military has repatriated what may be the remains of service personnel who were lost in action during World War II. The U.S. Embassy said the remains from Myanmar’s central Sagaing region were repatriated at the ceremony at the airport after being recovered in a mission carried out by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar repatriates suspected remains of US WWII servicemen

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FILE - In the May 7, 2019, file photo, Myanmar national Shein Latt, left, and his boss U.S. national John Fredric Todoroki leave a local court after being arrested for operating a marijuana plantation in Ngazun Township, Mandalay region, central Myanmar. A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced Shein Latt to twenty years in prison under the country's drug laws concerning marijuana. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Employee of US-owned hemp farm in Myanmar gets 20 years jail

By PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec.2, 2016 file photo, members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) guard at a common transit point for Rohingya along the banks of the Naf River, which marks the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi security officials on Monday fatally shot seven suspected members of a Rohingya refugee gang allegedly involved in drug dealing and human trafficking, officials said. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

8 suspected Rohingya gangsters shot dead in Bangladesh

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, photo Baptist Pastor Clifford Maung, third from left, recites a prayer as Chin Sai, center, and Myint Myint Swe, right, prepare food following services at the Overseas Burmese Christian Fellowship in Boston. All three are immigrants from Myanmar, also known as Burma. Confusion, sorrow and outrage are rippling across some immigrant communities after the announcement of a Trump administration policy that is expected to all but shut down family-based immigration from four countries, including Myanmar. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

New visa rules set off ‘panic wave’ in immigrant communities

By PHILIP MARCELO and SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

International court gathering evidence in Rohingya case

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

UN takes no action on order against Myanmar on Rohingyas

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, a protester holds an umbrella as police fire tear gas during a demonstration in Hong Kong. The human rights group Amnesty International says in annual report released Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 that while authoritarian controls are increasingly undermining freedoms in Asia, the will to resist such repression is also growing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Amnesty Int’l: Asia seeing growing repression, resistance

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

FILE- In this Aug. 27, 2018, file photo, Rohingya refugee children attend a UNICEF run school in Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Authorities in Bangladesh in partnership with the United Nations will expand educational programs for hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya children living in refugee camps who are currently receiving only basic lessons, officials said Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Bangladesh to improve schools for Rohingya refugee children

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2020, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, receives a final report from Philippine diplomat Rosario Manalo, a member of the Independent Commission of Enquiry for Rakhine State, at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. When Suu Kyi walked into the International Court of Justice in December, 2019, she gambled the remaining shreds of her hard-won international reputation on a rebuttal of accusations that her country's military committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Genocide charge dents halo of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice for the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. The United Nations' highest court is set to rule Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, on whether to order Myanmar to halt what has been described as a genocidal campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. The International Court of Justice decision comes in a case brought by the African nation of Gambia on behalf of an organization of Muslim nations that accuses Myanmar of genocide in its crackdown on the Rohingya. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Rohingya hail U.N. ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Top UN official says Myanmar must follow order on Rohingya

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, shakes hands with Philippine diplomat Rosario Manalo, a member of the Independent Commission of Enquiry for Rakhine State, at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. An independent commission established by Myanmar's government and led by Manalo has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that drove more than 700,000 members of the country's Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar panel: Security forces likely committed war crimes

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Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, right, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at president house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. (Nyein Chan Naing/Pool Photo via AP)

China’s Xi ends Myanmar visit with flurry of agreements

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FILE - In this April 10 2017, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, accompanied by Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, attends a meeting with Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, that Xi would visit Myanmar on Jan. 17-18. (Yohei Kanasashi/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Chinese president heads to Myanmar for crucial state visit

By AUNG SHINE OO and PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2018 file photo, a Rohingya refugee hangs a blanket out to dry at Balukhali refugee camp, about 50 kilometers (32 miles) from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. An island in Bangladesh that was submerged during the monsoon season is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees, but no date has been announced to begin relocating people from crowded and squalid camps on the country's border with Myanmar, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Bangladesh says once-submerged island ready for Rohingya

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. There was a time when Suu Kyi was the hero of the human rights set, whose nonviolent struggle against her country's military dictatorship was admired by people around the world and won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Now she is seen by many of her admirers as an apologist for war crimes against its Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

UN court to rule next week in Rohingya genocide case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

'The Hidden History of Burma' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Hidden History of Burma’

By Joshua Sinai

A man looks through newspapers with front pages leading with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice hearing, near a roadside journal shop Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi testified to the court that the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents. She denied that the army had killed civilians, raped women and torched houses. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar’s accusers slam Nobel laureate for genocide defense

By ALEKS FURTULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. There was a time when Suu Kyi was the hero of the human rights set, whose nonviolent struggle against her country's military dictatorship was admired by people around the world and won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Now she is seen by many of her admirers as an apologist for war crimes against its Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi’s defense of army puzzles former admirers

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press