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Cracks Showing in Burma's Junta

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Sep 27, 2007
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Elements of Burma’s ruling junta are saying privately that the worsening crisis in Rangoon is provoking fear and misgiving among the upper echelons of the nation’s military elite, who may refuse to shoot at monks, Asia Sentinel has been told.

Sources say that foreign diplomats are heading for Rangoon, perhaps on a chartered flight, to seek a way out of t…

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