...hardwoods, ample natural gas reserves and many other riches. But the only foreseeable change is a lot less grandiose: Than Shwe, the senior general who has been in charge since 1992, is now in his mid-70s. Questions about who and what will follow lead to...
...Day, but these are usually petty criminals, and sometimes a handful of political prisoners. The current Burmese leader, Gen. Than Shwe has also used the mass release of political prisoners as a way of signifying the start of a new era. More than 20,000 prisoners,...
...400,000 of each. At the heart of the country's long political struggle and isolation is Burma's reclusive dictator, General Than Shwe. The general, trained in psychological warfare, so reviles the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi that he won't allow her...
...400,000 of each. At the heart of the country's long political struggle and isolation is Burma's reclusive dictator, General Than Shwe. The general, trained in psychological warfare, so reviles the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi that he won't allow her...
...neither took nor returned his calls. (After repeatedly trying over several days, Ban gave up and sent letters instead.) Than Shwe has been the key to the resilience of the military government through his masterful but Machiavellian control over fellow officers....
...of some equipment, continue to hamper the aid effort, despite a pledge made almost two weeks ago by junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe to U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon to allow foreign aid workers free access to devastated areas. “The small number of visas and...
...my sanity, but I knew I had to work." Remarkably, he said he bears no personal grudge against the junta or its leader, General Than Shwe. But he added: "If we stay passive there is absolutely no hope for the future. This is why we are going to continue to...
...faint hope that the same karmic force that some believe took Maung Maung's life will eventually also visit SPDC Senior General Than Shwe and other senior members of his military regime. Norman Robespierre, a pseudonym, is a political scientist specializing...
...urge all the neighbors of Burma -- China and India and other neighbors -- to continue trying to talk to the Burmese general Than Shwe to see if he can't do what all the world...wants him to do," she told reporters, stressing that that is the start of "respecting...
...to urge all the neighbors of Burma -- China and India and other neighbors -- to continue trying to talk to the Burmese General, Than Shwe, to see if he can't do what all the world, the international community wants him to do, and that is start respecting the...