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...There will be change," the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi once said, "because all the military have are guns." Perhaps that was true in 1988. Today, the generals have much more than guns. They have huge revenues from oil and gas, relations with powerful neighbors India and China, and the support - occasionally the censure - of fellow members of ASEAN. They have a large standing army that has struck cease-fires with most of the ethnic rebel armies ranged against it and set about annihilating the rest. In many ways - economically, militarily, politically, regionally - Burma's generals are better...
...generation of young Burmese democrats, but more than 100 people were killed and thousands arrested in the regime's crackdown. Many of the 88 Student Generation are behind bars. No wonder, then, that some Burmese democrats are now considering more violent forms of protest. Leading Burmese journalist Aung Zaw recently recalled conversations with a senior dissident and a monk. The dissident was seeking funds to plant bombs in the old capital of Rangoon, while the monk wanted to launch a missile at the new capital of Naypyidaw. It is a measure of their rage and desperation that many educated Burmese...
...arch an eyebrow when Burma signed the charter is nothing short of willful ignorance. Yes, ASEAN did speak forcefully on July 20 when Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said the bloc's members felt "deep disappointment" that Burma in May prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told him Suu Kyi might possibly be released...
...Aung Than Htay's injuries seem slight until he tells you how he got them. The arms of the 30-year-old fisherman are grazed from wrists to armpits. A week before, he had clung to the trunk of a palm tree as a 12-foot storm surge carried off his wife, his infant son, and his four-year-old daughter. "My wife tried to hold on to my waist, but the water dragged her away," he says. He clung to the tree for three hours. When he finally descended, the water in his village of Ka Ka Yon still...
...Aung Than Htay is walking along the road to Laputta, a cylone-shattered delta town teeming with tens of thousands of refugees. Before Cyclone Nargis hit, the population of this sleepy riverside town was 30,000. With the hungry, homeless and bereaved pouring in from the delta - 80,000 have perished in this district alone, according to local aid workers - that refugee population has now reached six figures...