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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta leader kept up his usual tactics
for foreign critics Monday, packing a U.N. envoy off to a remote
academic conference and stalling for another day the chance for the
envoy to deliver international demands for an end to the crackdown on
democracy advocates.
Security forces lightened their presence in Yangon, the country's main
city, which remained quiet after troops and police brutally quelled
mass protests last week. Dissident groups say up to 200 protesters
were slain, compared to the regime's report of 10 deaths, and 6,000
detained.
Ibrabim Gambari, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy to
Myanmar, has been in the country since Saturday with the express
purpose of seeing Senior Gen. Than Shwe about the violence, but the
junta's top man hasn't made himself available.
Than Shwe does not bother with the usual diplomatic protocol and is
not an easy man to meet with. In previous sparring with the United
Nations and other international bodies over human rights abuses, the
regime has repeatedly snubbed envoys and ignored diplomatic overtures.
Instead of the meeting Gambari sought Monday, he was sent to a remote
northern town for an academic conference on relations between the
European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
diplomats reported, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Gambari was granted an appointment Tuesday to meet with Than Shwe in
Naypyitaw, U.N. officials in New York said.
U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq said Gambari would urge the junta
"to cease the repression of peaceful protest, release detainees, and
move more credibly and inclusively in the direction of democratic
reform, human rights and national reconciliation."
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Anyone who wants to disarm you is not your friend....
and is up to something....something evil.
for foreign critics Monday, packing a U.N. envoy off to a remote
academic conference and stalling for another day the chance for the
envoy to deliver international demands for an end to the crackdown on
democracy advocates.
Security forces lightened their presence in Yangon, the country's main
city, which remained quiet after troops and police brutally quelled
mass protests last week. Dissident groups say up to 200 protesters
were slain, compared to the regime's report of 10 deaths, and 6,000
detained.
Ibrabim Gambari, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy to
Myanmar, has been in the country since Saturday with the express
purpose of seeing Senior Gen. Than Shwe about the violence, but the
junta's top man hasn't made himself available.
Than Shwe does not bother with the usual diplomatic protocol and is
not an easy man to meet with. In previous sparring with the United
Nations and other international bodies over human rights abuses, the
regime has repeatedly snubbed envoys and ignored diplomatic overtures.
Instead of the meeting Gambari sought Monday, he was sent to a remote
northern town for an academic conference on relations between the
European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
diplomats reported, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Myanmar Photo Essays
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Myanmar Monks Protest Government The town of Lashio, where the
conference was held, is 240 miles north of Naypyitaw, the secure,
isolated city carved out of the jungle where Than Shwe moved the
capital in 2005.
Gambari was granted an appointment Tuesday to meet with Than Shwe in
Naypyitaw, U.N. officials in New York said.
U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq said Gambari would urge the junta
"to cease the repression of peaceful protest, release detainees, and
move more credibly and inclusively in the direction of democratic
reform, human rights and national reconciliation."
...................................
Anyone who wants to disarm you is not your friend....
and is up to something....something evil.
