Eerie silence on slaughter
An eerie quiet prevailed in Rangoon, Burma’s biggest city, where the junta continued scare tactics. Military vehicles patrolled overnight, with loudspeakers blaring warnings that soldiers were searching for protesters.
“We have photographs. We are going to make arrests,” they threatened.
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Hide AdEnvoy Ibrahim Gambari and reclusive leader Senior General Than Shwe sat together for more than an hour in the remote Burmese capital. Neither side issued any comment.
Gambari then met Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained Nobel laureate, under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years. Today, Gambari met Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose country expressed revulsion at the violent suppression of demonstrators.