Mixed Messages from Burma's junta

Source: Asia Times

Tentative talks in Burma between pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's military rulers have raised hopes in some quarters of a possible political breakthrough. At the same time diplomats and others believe the only tentative move towards dialogue is the latest of a long string of diversionary tactics by the junta to deflect international criticism and maintain its iron-clad grip on power.

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