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Her lectures came amid the military's attempts to resist her party's moves to amend the military-drafted Constitution in Parliament.
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USDP and military representatives in Parliament have opposed the proportional breakdown of the proposed committee for amending Myanmar’s disputed Constitution.
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Burma
The Irrawaddy briefs you on the week that was in the national legislature.
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State legislators agreed to debate a proposal that would urge the Union government to find a way to end the fighting between the Myanmar military and AA in northern Rakhine.
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The military-backed USDP wants just one change to the charter, and it has nothing to do with curbing the special privileges it grants the armed forces.
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Commentary
Will the military abide by U Than Shwe’s pledge to allow reform after ‘a few years’ of the party’s rule?
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Burma
Apart from food deliveries, the ICRC says most of its field activities in the area have been on hold for weeks, leaving many communities without access to essential services.
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A spokesman for the State Counselor's Office said the pilot brought down the military helicopter safely in eastern Shan State after detecting a hydraulic fluid leak.
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The Irrawaddy breaks down the constitutional reform committee's path to approval in graphics and numbers.
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The ethnic armed group said more than 120 people displaced by its fight with the military in Paletwa Township have taken shelter in territory near the border under its control.
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Of the 30 lawmakers who joined Tuesday's debate on whether to form the committee, only five — all from the military-backed USDP — objected.
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Three explosive devices went off in Ann Township only minutes after a military convoy passed the area on Monday, according to local officials and residents. No one was injured.
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36 lawmakers scheduled to take part, but not a single military appointee is among them
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Interview
The Irrawaddy interviews U Aung Kyi Nyunt, the NLD lawmaker who proposed in Parliament this week for a committee to be formed to work on changing the troublesome 2008 Constitution.
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"If we participate in the debate, it would be interpreted that we approve the proposal,” one military lawmaker said.
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