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Plus: Ethnic cleansing rages on in Burma; ICC examines alleged crimes against humanity in Philippines; Authoritarian slide in Kenya; Crackdown on opposition in Bangladesh; Repression against religious activists in Vietnam; the Winter Olympics; the EU and Azerbaijan; and Syria. Remember Syria?.

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