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Article: Protests are yielding to lethargy in Myanmar Military junta maintains its iron grip
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- October 6, 2008
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Daniel Pepper The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
10-06-2008
Protests are yielding to lethargy in Myanmar Military junta maintains its iron grip
Byline: Daniel Pepper The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: NEWS
NEW DELHI --
Myanmar is a country of uncommon beauty, full of dilapidated colonial structures slowly crumbling amid the damp swelter of the tropics, each surface and crevice losing ground to the organic pastels of mosses and molds.
At night, on low stools beneath the crowded umbrellas of Yangon's center-city tea shops, men sit closely and strum loud acoustic folk melodies, their songs filled with tradition rather than protest. Usually, the only ...