Burma's top generals continued today to keep UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari waiting for a meeting to discuss the country's crisis, sending him instead on a sightseeing tour of a remote area near the Chinese border, writes Edward Loxton from Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Gambari arrived in Burma two days ago, but has since met only lesser-ranking military officials, adding fuel to reports of a top-level split over the brutal suppression of week-long peaceful demonstrations by monks and other protesters.
But the capricious way in which Gambari is being treated by junta supremo Than Shwe (pictured on next page) and his second-in-command, Maung Aye, is being increasingly regarded as a way of embarrassing Gambari and his employers in New York.
Gambari even allowed himself to be given a seat at a pro-government rally in the  |
UN envoy given runaround
Newsdesk Special: Burma
Burma: latest on the anti-junta movement
Burma: the story so far
