It seems that it gives some news from Burma, at least if you trust the newspapers and the U.N. The New York Times online wrote today:

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A U.N. human rights envoy entered Myanmar for the first time in four years Sunday on a mission to uncover how many people were killed and detained since September’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro(who had been barred from the country since November 2003), the U.N.’s independent rights investigator for Myanmar, has said he is determined to gain access to the country’s prisons and detention centers as part of an investigation into wide-ranging allegations of abuse committed by the military regime.

I wish him luck, because he will need a lot of it. The junta will do everything to cover up. And he knows that because:

Pinheiro has a history of prickly relations with the ruling generals. He abruptly cut short a visit in March 2003 after finding a listening device in a room at a prison where he was interviewing political detainees. Later that year, he accused the junta of making ”absurd” excuses to keep political opponents in prison.

And he will have a lot of work to do there, because according to human rights groups at least 700 political prisoners still remain in custody. So he definitely knows, what kind of people he’s dealing with. That the junta is a bunch of damn layers. Oh, by the way, what I said about the junta in Burma applies to every dictatorship, no matter whether militarily or religiously, they are all the same.