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As in the West, extending marriage rights to same-sex couples will only serve to strengthen the social fabric.

Low public and international support and regular reports of soldiers surrendering leave the junta with few choices.

U Win Myint is reportedly in bad health, joining other senior members of the ousted elected administration suffering illness in prisons around the country.   

A hip-hop star, he was a democracy activist in Myanmar and then a lawmaker. After a military coup, he joined the resistance and was hanged for it.

A political dissident and a rebel army officer were both executed by the then junta in the 1970s.

One rights activist says the moves are ‘more of the ongoing persecution of journalists.’

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1 last year, citing unaddressed fraud in an election three months earlier won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

One year on, resistance to military rule is unrecognisable from its boisterous, colourful start.

One year on, resistance to military rule is unrecognisable from its boisterous, colourful start.

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military seized power last year in a Feb. 1 coup that abruptly ended a decade of tentative steps towards democracy.