Burma Rebels Plan Next Steps
The enforced calm on the streets of Rangoon make it easy to think that the battle for control of Burma’s 47 million people has already been decided in the military’s favor. Indeed, early this week Foreign Minister Nyan Win declared at the United Nations in New York that Myanmar (as the country’s military rulers prefer to call it) was returning to “normalcy” after the spate of demonstrations and defiance that have swept the land over the past month....