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...democracy activists predict the protests could eventually expand and escalate. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems-- and I don't think it can quickly--then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who now lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point when normal people overcome their fear of the regime and rise up, and this could be that moment...
...arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won a landslide election in 1990, only to have the junta ignore the polls. "We know the world is on our side now," says Aung Zaw, a former student activist who lives in northern Thailand and edits a Burma-focused publication called The Irrawaddy. "That moral support is very important for the people back in Burma, who are risking their lives to fight the regime...
...hardships are made more unbearable by a widening wealth gap. The country's military leaders are enjoying ever more ostentatious lives, their wallets fattened by gas-pipeline deals with neighbors China, India and Thailand. A samizdat video circulating in Rangoon shows junta chief Than Shwe's daughter getting married in a lavish ceremony. The couple reportedly received millions of dollars in wedding gifts--in a nation where the average annual per capita income is just $225. More appalling, the junta spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 2005 to build a brand-new capital city. Yet today Naypyidaw...
...drew hundreds of supporters before security forces broke up the rally. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems - and I don't think it can quickly - then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point when normal people overcome their fear of the regime and rise up; this could be that moment...
...British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown's statement that he's going to be involved in the issue. The Chinese arranged [for] the U.S. to informally meet with the regime, and that's important. It wasn't effective, but I think it's time for us to talk to China, Thailand, Russia, India, countries that are physically, geographically, as well as economically close to Burma. Our sanctions don't mean that much because of other countries who take the benefit of Burma's natural resources. I'm very concerned about the teak forests, I'm worried about the Burmese people...