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...Standing Alone Many in Burma's pro-democracy movement - and in the U.S. Congress - view any overtures to the generals as appeasement and say Than Shwe personally has blood on his hands. Aung Lynn Htut, a former Burmese diplomat and army major who defected to the U.S. in 2005, claims Grandfather personally ordered the massacre of 81 men, women and children on a remote Burmese island in 1998. Five years later, Than Shwe's thugs attacked the convoy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Depayin, west of Mandalay, killing or injuring dozens of her supporters...
...plain reality that, in nine months in office, President’s Obama’s actions have had more of an effect on the world than a lifetime of work by most activists. This does not make the efforts of advocates such as Burma’s Aung San Su Kyi or Bill and Melinda Gates any less praiseworthy, but it does put them in perspective. As “the leader of the free world,” the American president’s words do matter...
...with the Burmese abruptly ended last month when junta forces invaded its tiny territory. The ease with which the Kokang were defeated presumably buoyed the junta, many of whose members gained their battlefield experience against ethnic militias. "Everyone in the West talks about democracy and [Nobel Peace Prize laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi," says Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Burmese military expert and former communist rebel living in exile in China's Yunnan province. "But the junta's biggest enemy is not her. It is the ethnics." (Read "Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty...
...this Chinese patronage are still fresh. It also doesn't help Burmese nationalism that large parts of Mandalay, the country's second largest city and historic royal capital, have turned into a giant Chinatown. "The SPDC wants to remake its image as the new great kings of Burma," says Aung Kyaw Zaw, the former communist rebel who now lives in Yunnan. "So even if they take advantage of China for business reasons, they don't want any foreigners interfering in their kingdom...
...amount of merit-making can erase the image of regime goons massacring monks two years ago. Although a frightened hush followed that crackdown, Suu Kyi's sentencing has reignited speculation that the generals have gone too far - and that religious harmony has been disturbed. (Read "Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty...