The generals' domination in Myanmar, formerly Burma, has been tested repeatedly over the past two decades -- by the monks last September, by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy leader under house arrest, and by a powerful cyclone earlier this year that brought the generals into confrontation with an outside world confounded by their resistance to accepting help. Yet today, with their principal rivals sidelined, exiled or imprisoned, the generals appear to be at the apex of their power.
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/world/asia/26yangon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq&st=cse"&scp=1"Explosion in Myanmar on Anniversary of Crackdown