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| 2000, Jan. 24 | |
| Led by twin 12-year-old boys, a fundamentalist Christian offshoot of the Karen National Union known as God's Army seized a Thai hospital along the Myanmar border. Leaders Johnny and Luther Htoo guided the mob into taking some 800 prisoners in the locality of Ratchaburi Thailand. The twins lost their lives days later in a standoff. | 1 |
| Sept. 2 | |
| Though denounced by various world powers, the ruling junta withheld pro-democracy NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in Rangoon, preventing her from rallying her supporters as the government sought to suppress them. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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