"The simple truth is that no country, not even the UK, supports current American policy in its entirety," he said at a forum organized by the Washington-based, conservative Heritage Foundation. (Source: AFP)

But despite the brutality of the army's assaults - aided by the fact that, unlike China, Burma was essentially off the map for the West, and most of the killings went unrecorded by the foreign media - the Burmese people emerged victorious. (Source: The Independent)

Burma suffers a political, human rights and humanitarian situation as grim as any in the world today. The country is run by an utterly illegitimate government that spends 50 per cent of its budget on the military and less than a $1 (50p) per head on the health and education of its own citizens. (Source: The Independent )