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By THE IRRAWADDY  Shwe Mann, the speaker of Burma's lower house of Parliament, speaks to reporters in Naypyidaw on Nov. 25, 2011. (Photo: AP) There is little danger that Burma's military will ever seize control of the country again, according to Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house of the country's nominally civilian Parliament. “I don’t think it will happen in the future. We really understand the situation of the people and the country,” the former top general said in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Monday. Burma has experienced two coup d'etats since it achieved independence in 1948: one in 1962 that ended a brief era of parliamentary democracy, and another in 1988, when the military crushed a pro-democracy uprising that had brought down the previous military-dominated socialist regime. Now that the military has introduced a new era of “disciplined democracy,” however, it is unlikely to turn back the clock again, said Shwe Mann. “Ther

ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN (17th January 2012) ARNO Welcomes the Written Ministerial Statement of the FCO Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) heartily welcomes the written Ministerial statement, dated 16 January 2012, of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, on the visit of Foreign Secretary William Hague to Burma on 5-6 January. “It was a historic visit; the first by a British Foreign Secretary since 1955”, the statement said.

By Kaladanpress Teknaf, Bangladesh: Six Rohingyas were arrested and pushed back to Burma by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on January 17, said a local from Teknaf. “The Rohingya were arrested from border area of Nilla union in raided by BGB while they were entering the Bangladesh.”