...the visit of the U.N. leader to the hierarchy-obsessed nation had been enough to break the impasse. In contrast, Gen. Than Shwe declined to meet U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, during a pre-cyclone visit earlier this year. Some U.N. officials...
...with self interest instead. Evil will never transmute to gold Than Shwe. Never. Not even if you name yourself, Than Than Than Shwe Shwe Shwe. _______ for more by dr.e. with spiritual perspective on Than Shwe’s corrupt rule of Burma, see “Facing Evil” article...
...leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, will never be allowed to take her rightful office as leader of Burma. Than Shwe refuses to honor the people’s true vote from the 1990 general election, which was won by her, not by Than Shwe the interloper. Than...
...with an inch-thick flight schedule for an ever-expanding grid of airports. It is a publication that would surely please Than Shwe, because it appears to show how the country has prospered against the wishes of the west. On a shelf there are directories detailing...
...press. There was also little sign of life near some of the city's 1,200 new four-story apartment complexes. Once at Than Shwe's pillared compound, armed guards greeted the group, leading them through a two-story entrance hall that opened onto a 15-foot rock...
...intimidation and isolation has kept him and a coterie of hard-nosed generals in power here for 16 years. The 75-year-old Than Shwe has presided with an iron fist over a military regime that has been more successful at nurturing its power than its people, purging...
...also did not raid the monasteries, unlike in Yangon," said Win Min. "In Yangon, the special troops there are very close to Than Shwe." But even as Than Shwe might see over Maung Aye's subtle insubordination, he has not sacked him. His deputy has many regional...
...civilians, but few have been attested by so well placed a source as Major Aung Lin Htut. They come at a time when General Than Shwe and his regime are coming under intense scrutiny, after their refusal to allow a full scale relief operation for the victims...
...1992. And he has consolidated power so that he alone really runs things now. It used to be a triumvirate; it is now just Than Shwe. MARGARET WARNER: I'm sorry, just hold that thought, and let me get Ms. Clapp back in here. Tell us more about these generals,...
...the optimists were proven wrong. Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the time during Than Shwe's rule in prison or under house arrest, and the economy, the rice bowl of Asia at independence from Britain in 1948, has slid...