Burmese soldiers ride on army motorbike in a street of the Burmese capital, on November 30, 1995, in Rangoon (Yancoon).
YANGON, MYANMAR - APRIL 3: Burmese muslims look past a police line near the scene of a burned mosque on April 3, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. A deadly fire at a mosque in Rangoon, which happened in the early morning hours on April 2, killed at least 13 children who were sleeping. Officials say the fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring. Tensions in the muslim community remain high after recent sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left 43 people dead and many injured, with thousands of muslim left homeless.
YANGON, MYANMAR - APRIL 3: A Burmese boy leaves a mosque after afternoon prayers showing off his t shirt on April 3, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. A deadly fire at a mosque in Rangoon, which happened in the early morning hours on April 2, killed at least 13 children who were sleeping. Officials say the fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring. Tensions in the muslim community remain high after recent sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left 43 people dead and many injured, with thousands of muslim left homeless.
FILE - The Civic Hall in Rangoon, Burma, (now Yangon, Myanmar) with a crowd surrounding a British Spitfire, centre, and an Auster aircraft, in this April 3, 1946 file photo. A team of British excavators are heading to the Myanmar city of Yangon on Saturday Jan 5 2012 to find a nearly forgotten stash of British fighter planes thought to be carefully buried beneath the former capital's airfield. The venture, backed with a million-dollar guarantee from a Belarusian videogame company, could uncover dozens of Spitfire aircraft buried underground at the end of World War II.
Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hug after a meeting at Suu Kyi's residence in Rangoon, Myanmar, on December 2, 2011. Clinton is traveling to the country on a two-day visit, the first by a US Secretary of State in more than 50 years.
In this picture taken on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, Zaw Zaw Min, who participated in the 1988 student demonstrations at Rangoon University , and, like his father and his son, served time as a political prisoner, displays his mobile phone chain with a portrait of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a tea shop outside the main gate of the school, now known as the University of Yangon. Since colonial times, the fight for change in Myanmar has begun on the leafy campus. It was a center of the struggle for independence against Britain and served as a launching point for pro-democracy protests in 1962, 1974, 1988 and 1996. For many, the school has today become a symbol of the country s ruined education system and a monument to a half century of misrule.
