Victims of a Stalled Revolution

The success of Burmese dictatorship - the country, now called Myanmar by the junta, has been ruled by the military since 1962 - probably lies in the fact that no other country will much benefit if it falls and that it isn´t much of a threat to it´s neighbours. When you are threat only to the people you rule over, it seems that you can do pretty much everything you want to. And now China´s growing influence in Burma probably guarantees the junta´s survival for some time - nowadays nobody wants to step on China´s toes. More.