SLORC

This is partially because a military regime, called SLORC, changed the name of this ancient land a few years ago.

GET TO KNOW BURMA-SO-CALLED MYANMAR!! 2007

The reason, Leighton claimed in a recent phone interview, was that if Horn's strategy proved successful, it would have undercut the State Department's goal of vilifying the SLORC in the eyes of Congress and the public at large.

Allison Kilkenny: War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table 2009

Even mass demonstrations appear to be ineffectual in forcing change on the SLORC -- this was one of the lessons of 2007.

Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

The Uprising ended on September 18, 1988, after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).

Boing Boing 2007

Even mass demonstrations appear to be ineffectual in forcing change on the SLORC -- this was one of the lessons of 2007.

Running a dictatorship Daniel Little 2009

Without question, the SLORC engaged in human rights violations, including murder, the recruitment of child soldiers, forced labor, and political imprisonments.

Allison Kilkenny: War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table 2009

The fact that Horn was making progress with the SLORC didn't matter.

Allison Kilkenny: War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table 2009

Horn became the target of the CIA, his attorney alleges, when he refused to portray the oppressive military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC,) ruling Burma in the "worst possible light."

Allison Kilkenny: War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table 2009

Horn, according to the letter to [U.S. Sen. Richard] Shelby, had made inroads in gaining the assistance of the SLORC in working toward opium poppy eradication in Burma.

Allison Kilkenny: War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table 2009

Others eventually signed ceasefires with SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council), as the ruling junta was called before it was reconstituted as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) -- benign in name only -- in 1997.

Russ Wellen: Karen Independence Movement: Seven Decades Of Futility? 2009