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Riots Begin in Bangkok after Thai Protest Leaders Surrender
Offensive began early Wednesday when Thai forces pushed into the protesters encampment
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SLIDE SHOW Violence Erupts in Bangkok after Redshirts Surrender |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The Thai army enters the Redshirt encampment in Bangkok on Wednesday, ending the months-long standoff but widespread mob violence engulfs the capital as isolated bands of Redshirt protestors set fire to major buildings. |
Bangkok Eyewitness—Protesters Run Amok as Army Moves In |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Bangkok is in chaos as hardcore protesters run amok after violent suppression of the Redshirt protest by the army. |
One More Political Prisoner Dies in Jail |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Another political prisoner, Kyaw Soe, 40, has died at Myingyan Prison in central Burma, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma. |
Six Burmese Businessmen Seek Private Banking Licenses |
| By NAYEE LIN LATT |
| Burma's wealthiest tycoon Tay Za and five other businessmen close to the military regime have applied for permits to establish private banks. |
USDA Continues to Harass Water Volunteers |
| By KO HTWE |
| Members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association(USDA) continue to try to co-opt local volunteer groups who try to distribute water in drought-stricken areas of Burma. |
Armed Robbers Kill Two Near Rangoon |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Armed robbers open fire and throw a grenade at neighbors during a house break-in at a small village outside Rangoon. |
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ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕လယ္တြင္ေတာ့ ပုဆိုးကို ရင္ေခါင္းတက္ဝတ္ထားၿပီး ကၽြတ္မက်ေစရန္ ခါးပတ္စည္းထားသည့္ ဦးသိန္းဂိန္မွာ အစိမ္းေရာင္ အလံမ်ား ကိုင္၍ ညႊန္ၾကားမႈ မ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနသည္။ သူ႔ေဘးတြင္ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ဒူးႀကီးကို ေခါင္းတညိတ္ညိတ္ ေက်နပ္ သည့္ မ်က္ႏွာႏွင့္ ေတြ႕လိုက္ရသည္။ 
Dysentery has joined the list of ills stemming from the water crisis in the lower and central regions of ...
