Decades after Myanmar's (formerly Burma) military junta forced the Rohingyas into exile, their suffering still continues.
Suu Kyi has been an international pro-democracy figure since founding the National League of Democracy in 1988, leading nonviolent resistance against Burma's military junta.
Unwilling to relinquish power, Burma's military junta cancelled the results and placed NLD leaders like Ms Suu Kyi either under house arrest or in prison.
From 1991 to 1997, Pepsi invested in Burma and incidentally supported the junta regime.
Webb paid court to Than Shwe, the senior general in the brutally repressive junta that has misruled Burma (which it renamed Myanmar) since 1962.
The romance began to fade after 1962, when a socialist military junta seized control of Burma and began cutting it off from the rest of the world.
Last week, Australia's Lowy Institute published a report by Burma expert Andrew Selth on the junta's alleged long-running efforts to secure Scud-type short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) from North Korea and other sources.
The ruling military junta changed its name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, a year after thousands were killed in the suppression of a popular uprising.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who earlier this month visited Myanmar -- also known as Burma -- has asked the ruling junta to release all political prisoners, including the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Since 1993, India has steadily deepened its engagement with the Burmese junta, setting aside ties to Burma's democratic past and moral qualms about this odious regime.
It is no secret that Fernandes's official residence in New Delhi is the unofficial local headquarters of the All Burma Students League, which opposes the Yangon military junta.
The ruling military junta in Myanmar -- traditionally known as Burma -- made a rare appeal for humanitarian aid as it continues plans to hold a referendum Saturday on a draft constitution.
The hardline military junta took power in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in 1962.
In Burma, monks wielded their moral authority to challenge the military junta and argue for democracy in the Saffron Revolution of 2007.
Burma is back in the news amid reports that the ruling military junta has set its upcoming "elections" for October 2010 and is making serious efforts to secure short-range ballistic missiles.
However, the human rights situation in Burma is far more severe, and Washington has had sanctions on the military junta for the most of nineteen years to virtually no avail.
Taken with the lack of results from the Obama administration's attempted engagement with the junta, these developments highlight the need for stepped-up regional activism in favor of democracy in Burma, especially from its democratic neighbors.
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