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...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 off than 20 years...
...Today, Burma's plight receives immeasurably more international attention than it did 20 years ago. U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush met with Burmese activists and visited refugees during their stopover in Thailand en route to the Beijing Olympics, while the U.N. has dispatched two special envoys to Rangoon this month. Yet ordinary Burmese have less faith than ever that global diplomacy will improve their lives. Last September's protests taught them there are limits to what the world is willing or able...
...Protests during this anniversary month seem unlikely. But then Burma is a big country and hard to predict: both the 1988 uprising and last year's protests took Burma watchers by surprise. It's even tougher to read the country's secretive military rulers. The chief general, Than Shwe, is 75 years old and by some accounts ailing, but it would be naive to assume that his demise will fracture or enfeeble the military. Over the years, senior Burmese generals have either died (Ne Win in 2002) or been purged (Khin Nyunt in 2004), and each time the military...
...marvel at China's accomplishments, Bush was focused not on past triumphs, but on present dangers. In Seoul, he met with President Lee Myung Bak to plot the next phase in North Korea's slow-motion nuclear disarmament. In Bangkok, he praised Southeast Asia's economic progress while slamming Burma for human-rights abuses...
...Iraq War. The Iraq War promised to turn disaffected youths into a new generation of extremists. Meanwhile, the human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA’s “black sites” hampered our ability to stem atrocities in countries like Sudan, Burma, and Zimbabwe...