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The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict reports that the Myanmar Armed Forces have occupied educational facilities for military purposes, recruited teachers and students for forced labour, and planted landmines close to or on the paths to schools. The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has reportedly set fire to schools as part of a policy of burning whole villages to prevent people from returning to them. Schools have also reportedly been shelled or destroyed using other methods by both state and non-state forces.

( Colum Lynch/Foreign Policy) The Obama administration has decided to press for

(John Pomfret/ The Washinton Post) The Obama administration decided Tuesday to support the creation of a United Nations commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma, a sign of a tougher U.S. policy against a regime long accused of murdering and raping its political foes.

Barclays Bank has agreed to pay $298m (€232.13m) over criminal allegations that it illegally engaged in financial transactions with banks in

DVB : Thirty-two US senators urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to back the creation of a special UN commission to