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Sectarian Violence Threatens Myanmar Amid Democratic Reforms

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Angelina T. Velasquez
Staff Reporter

Angry mobs have torched several mosques in the Rakhine region.

President Obama To Visit Burma

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President Obama will follow Hillary Clinton's visit to Burma with his own. (State Department/Wikimedia Commons)

Matt Pressberg
Executive Producer

He will become the first U.S. president to visit the secretive nation.

People Of Myanmar Gain Right To Protest

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A 2007 protest on Burma's behalf in Dublin. Now citizens of Myanmar will be able to demonstrate on their own. (Flickr)

Catherine Green
Executive Producer

With some provisions, of course.

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