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  • n  a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power
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  • Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks
    By Andrew R.C. Marshall YANGON (Reuters) - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence and once called himself the "Burmese bin Laden." But a Reuters examination traces 969's origins to an official in the dictatorship that once ran ...
    June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

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