U.N.'s envoy did not speak to top leaders in Myanmar by Corina Ciubotaru

After days of protests and dozens of people killed in Myanmar, the U.N. managed to send an envoy there, to try and talk some sense in the junta. Mr. Ibrahim Gambari went there asking to meet the top military leaders of the country and only succeeded in talking to the prime minister, the deputy foreign minister and the ministers of culture and information, with the two top generals refusing to dialogue. The envoy also had a meeting with the opposition leader and elected President of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has won a Nobel peace prize in 1990 and has been in house arrest for 4 years. Little is known about what Mr. Gambari accomplished so far in the country; the fact is that more military are now patrolling the streets of the former capital city Yangon, which has been the scene of the biggest anti-junta protests in almost 20 years. Peaceful rioting started in August after a major hike in oil prices and have been growing in scale until last week, when thousands of Buddhist monks have joined the marches. After hesitating to take drastic action against Myanmar's highest moral authority, the monks, the junta finally gave the order last Wednesday to shoot rubber bullets at protesters and arrest them. According to the government, 10 people were killed so far, but witnesses talk of many more, while some 1,000 were arrested. Early last week, some monks declared the protests will not stop until the junta is brought down after a reign of 50 years.

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by Corina Ciubotaru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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