Rangoon – Page 3 – The Mail & Guardian

/ 2 October 2007

UN envoy meets Burma junta chief, Suu Kyi

United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Burma junta chief Than Shwe and detained opposition Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday at the end of four-day mission to halt a bloody crackdown on the biggest democracy protests in 20 years. There was no word on whether Gambari’s single meeting with Than Shwe had persuaded him to relax his iron grip.

By Aung Hla Tun

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/ 12 June 2005

West sees no evil as Myanmar suffers on

Walk around Rangoon and you’d never guess you were living in one of the world’s most brutal regimes. The military presence doesn’t feel overbearing. In plain clothes, though, lurk military intelligence agents. They are everywhere. And then there are the informers on street corners and at meeting places.

By Staff Reporter

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