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Myanmar's President Thein Sein arrives at the West Wing of the White House for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, May 20, 2013.
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Burma President Thein Sein
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, leader of the opposition party the NLD and Burma's democracy icon, spent more than 15 years under house arrest in her lakeside home and Insein prison. First detained in July 1989 for 6 years, she was put back under house arrest again from 1999 to 2002 and then finally again in May 2003 after the infamous Depayin incident where the military regime attempted to assassinate her. She was released from her latest sentence in November 2010 and continues to work tirelessly to achieve democracy and national reconciliation in Burma in spite of constant threats and oppression from the authorities. Soe Min Min, a member of the NLD who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to 8 years for praying for Aung San Suu Kyi's release whilst she was under house arrest. He was released from Insein prison under a presidential amnesty in January 2012.
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A man walks though a burnt Rohingya village during fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe June 10, 2012. Northwest Myanmar was tense on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds. Picture taken June 10, 2012.
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Myanmar Buddhist monks hold a banner as they take part in a demonstration against the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Yangon on Oct. 15, 2012. Thousands of monks took to the streets in Myanmar's to protest against the world Islamic body's attempts to help Muslim Rohingya in unrest-hit Rakhine state.
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Burma's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stands after paying floral tribute at the memorial of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Nov. 14, 2012.
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Soldier from the All Burma Students Democratic Front - Northern Burma, an ally of the Kachin Independence Army, seen outside Laiza, in Kachin on Sep. 22. 2012.
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U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Shwedagon Pagoda with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Yangon, Myanmar on Nov. 19, 2012. This is the first visit to Myanmar by a sitting U.S. president.
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Myanmar President Thein Sein (R) and the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet in New York on Sept. 25, 2012, ahead of their appearances at events at the United Nations.
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Burma's President Thein Sein speaks to the media during a press conference at the presidential residence in Naypyidaw on Oct. 21, 2012.
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Myanmar's junta leader General Than Shwe reviewing the honour guard in front of the Myanmar's three great kings statues.
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In this November 16, 2010 photo, Myanmar's Prime Minister Thein Sein gives a speech during an opening ceremony of the 5th Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Myanmar leader senior general Than Shwe reviews troops during a military parade marking the country's 65th Armed Forces Day at a parade ground in the new capital Naypyidaw on March 27, 2010.
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Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks at Vincent Van Gogh's painting "L'eglise d'Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet" (1890), as she visits the Orsay museum in Paris, June 28, 2012.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
"Solidarity"
Buddhist monks pray during heavy rain outside the Union of Myanmar Embassy in Mayfair, London, in a show of support for the protests by Buddhist Monks in Burma.
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Real or re-enacted? A still from Burma VJ. It's hard to tell which scenes are authentic
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Burma military ruler Senior General Than Shwe reviews troops on the 60th anniversary of the Myanmar Armed Forces Day in Yangon, March 27, 2005
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Burma's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi pays respect to a Buddhist monk as she offers robe outside her National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, in Rangoon, Burma
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Burma's junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe, center, greets guests during a dinner to mark the 63rd anniversary of Independence Day in Naypyitaw, Burma
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Burma's junta leader Senior General Than Shwe inspects an honor guard during an official welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 8, 2010
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Monks and civilians in Rangoon take cover as Myanmar troops use batons and tear gas.
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Ambulances are seen near the site of a bomb blast in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, April 15, 2010
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A Burma resident examines houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Burma.
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Buddhist monks join Myanmese activists in a demonstration in front of Myanmar embassy in Bangkok on October 7, 2007.
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An aerial view of devastation caused by the cyclone Nargis is seen at an unknown location in Myanmar on May 6, 2008.
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Sunrise in Bagan, central Burma, Jan. 25, 2013.
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A firefighter runs towards a burning stock of hay which belongs to a Muslim household in Okkan, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Rangoon, Myanmar. Buddhist mobs hurling bricks overran a pair of mosques and set hundreds of homes ablaze in central Myanmar on Tuesday, injuring at least 10 people in the latest anti-Muslim violence to shake the Southeast Asian nation.
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This Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 photo shows Burma prisoners walking outside Insein Prison in Rangoon, Burma. Burma State television said Tuesday April 23, 2013 that President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 93 prisoners one day after the European Union lifted sanctions against the Southeast Asian nation.
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Asylum seekers from Burma rest inside a naval ship after being rescued in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 17, 2013
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U.S. President Barack Obama puts his hands together after the conclusion of his speech at Yangon University’s Convocation Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012.
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Chairperson of The National League for Democracy of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi (L) meets with Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh at his residence in New Delhi on Nov. 14, 2012
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Burma's Senior General Than Shwe was reportedly one of Irrawaddy's readers
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Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles to her supporters as she leaves the Rangoon headquarters of her National League for Democracy party on Nov. 15, 2010
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Burma's General Than Shwe, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh witness the signing of agreements in New Delhi on July 27, 2010
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Burma's Foreign Minister U Nyan Win attends the 43rd ASEAN ministerial meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam Tuesday, July 20, 2010.
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A supporter of Burma's newly released opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds up a card with her picture amid a gathering of thousands of supporters at the National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon
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Burma's Prime Minister Thein Sein.
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Burma's military junta charged pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi with breaching the terms of her house arrest after U.S. citizen John Yettaw swam across a lake and hid inside her home
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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with the ruling junta's labor minister, Aung Kyi, in Rangoon on January 30, 2008 in this file handout picture
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Buddhist monks protest in Rangoon, Burma, in September 2007.
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Rohingya refugees from Burma carry drinking water in a refugee camp in Bangladesh on Aug. 16, 2009
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Burma military officials unload relief supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis from an American C-130 plane at the Rangoon airport.
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Burma soldiers carry sacks of rice, part of aid supplied by the Thai government, at an airport in Rangoon, May 6, 2008.
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Supporters of Burma's Aung San Suu KYI look across Inya Lake at the home where the pro-democracy leader has been detained for much of the past two decades
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Despite losing Burma's last elections in 1990, the junta has kept a firm grip on power.
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"Symbol of dignity" Yeoh plays Burma's tenacious heroine Suu Kyi in Besson's "The Lady"
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Campaign signs dot a street in Rangoon, Burma
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At the headquarters of Burma's National League for Democracy, young supporters stand in front of a poster of the detained party leader, Aung San
Suu Kyi
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This Dec. 21, 2009, photo released by the Democratic Voice of Burma shows Burmese defector Sai Thein Win at the control panel of an industrial machine at an undisclosed location in Burma
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In this image made available by the United States Embassy in Rangoon, Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, meets with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, right, in Rangoon, Burma, Monday, May.10, 2010
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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in an
undisclosed location
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Did Burma free prisoners to win points at the ASEAN meeting in Laos?
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BOTTOM UP: Burma's Zaw Latt (in blue) defends against Malaysia's Abdul Mubin Mohd Azlan at Doha last winter
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The ruins of Bagan, Burma
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Protesters stand near a roadblock in Rangoon, Burma, on Sept. 27, 2007
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SAVED: The tsunami hit Burma with far less force than some of its neighbors
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Protesters in Los Angeles target Unocal's Burma investments
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A Burmese man stands next to his destroyed home on April 5, 2012 in Meiktila, Burma.
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A man looks at female sex workers by the side of a road while a car drives by in Yangon, Burma, Sept. 2, 2012.
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An estimated 442 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged in one neighborhood of Meiktila, Burma
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Smoke rises as people look on in Meikhtila, Burma, March 21, 2013.
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An ethnic Rohingya man climbs aboard his boat in Sittwe, Burma on Jan. 31, 2013
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A man checks his mobile phone as another reads a newspaper in front of a store in Yangon, Burma on Jan. 22, 2013.
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters from a car as she visits Monywa, northern Burma, on November 30, 2012.
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USDP, ruling party, rally at Yuzana, Burma, March 28, 2012.
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Muslim residents carry their belongings as they evacuate their houses amid ongoing violence in Sittwe, capital of Burma's western state of Rakhine, on June 12, 2012
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Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes an appearance at Burma's administrative capital, Naypyidaw, for a meeting with President Thein Sein on Aug. 20 2011
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A picture obtained on March 27, 2011 from Burma's Popular News Journal shows fishermen sitting in a navy ship on March 20 after being rescued along the country's southern coast
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Left, a satellite view of a village fire in Burma. Right, Burmese soldiers block a road in the city center of Rangoon, Burma.
Nic Dunlop / HBO
A military photo of Myo Myint, as shown in the documentary film Burma Soldier
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Filipino protesters light candles and wear posters of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration of support outside the Edsa Shrine in Ortigas, eastern Manila, Philippines on May 31, 2009
Khin Maung Win / AP
General Than Shwe, right, greets guests on Union Day in Naypyitaw, Burma, on Feb. 12, 2011
Khin Maung Win / AP
A local man walks past the fence outside the parliament building in Naypyitaw, Burma, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011
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A burmese man stands next to a campaign truck in downtown Rangoon, Burma.
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A policeman investigates the site where three bombs exploded during Thingyan, Burma's new year festival, in central Rangoon on April 15, 2010
Patrick Durand / Abaca
Demonstrators took the streets again in Rangoon, Burma.
Christian Holst / Getty
Bus passengers waiting for buses August 15, 2007 in front of the City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar.
Kemal Jufri / Imaji for Time
Daily life in Nazi, a Rohingya village in Sittwe, Burma
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A resident wades through floodwaters in Maungdaw, Rakhine State in the western part of Burma
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stalled: Even in the capital, Rangoon, Burma's economy is struggling to get started
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"Democracy's martyr"A protester in Paris holds up a portrait of Burma's Suu Kyi
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STATELY: The "Road to Mandalay" at rest on Burma's Irrawaddy river
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Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, at their office in Rangoon, Burma, on Sept. 6, 2010
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Armed Burmese security forces march down the streets of downtown Rangoon, Burma.
Photograph for TIME by Kemal Jufri / Imaji
"Eye on the prize:" The remote village of Mee Laung Yaw in Burma's Arakan state is now dominated by an oil-exploration tower
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An unidentified Total official, left, briefs the media at a metering junction of its natural-gas pipeline in Burma
Jules Motte / Abaca
People wait for humanitarian help along the road to Bogalay in the Irrawady Delta, Burma.
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Burmese monks remove a roof damaged by Cyclone Nargis on the outskirt of Rangoon, Burma.
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A boy carries a jerican of water in Bogalay, in the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma
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People walk past the front entrance of the Correctional Department of the Insein prison in Rangoon, Burma, on May 15, 2009
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Monks protected by a 'human fence' of citizens holding hands walk in protest against the Burma's military regime on Sept. 25, 2007, in Rangoon
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Ethnic minorities in traditional dress and Burmese civil servants plant jatropha crops at an official planting ceremony in Burma's Shan State on Jan. 15, 2006
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Workers pour rice into bags to be loaded on to a truck for distribution, in Yangon, Burma, Wednesday, May 7, 2008.
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A worker uses a forklift to load a transport aircraft with relief material from the German Red Cross for Burma at Berlin's Schoenfeld airport.
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People walk past an uprooted tree in Rangoon, May 6, 2008, after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma's main city on Saturday.
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Nearly 400 Burmese Buddhist monks march through Yangon to protest the military junta's alleged use of violence against Buddhist monks at Pakoku, a site in the upper part of Myanmar.
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