BANGKOK (Reuters) - The United States will invite Myanmar to the world's largest multinational military field exercise, a powerful symbolic gesture toward a military with a grim human rights record and a milestone in its rapprochement with the West.
Exclusive: U.s. To Invite Myanmar To Joint Military Exercises
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Fri, 10/19/2012 - 2:39am
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