Typically ;the UN is ineffective in Burma
UN Envoy Ibrahim Gambari met with several low level junta members but is being ignored by the top brass in the government. An estimated 20,000 troops filled the streets of Rangoon during Gambari's visit to prevent any protests from forming.
But no need to worry ;the revolt has been effectively crushed .Liberty takes another beat down while the world in all it's impotence looks on. The Daily Mail reports on the brutality used to end the protest of the monks. Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle | the Daily Mail
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Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
Last updated at 11:37am on 1st October 2007
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.. .
Reports from exiles along the frontier confirmed that hundreds of monks had simply "disappeared" as 20,000 troops swarmed around Rangoon yesterday to prevent further demonstrations by religious groups and civilians.
Word reaching dissidents hiding out on the border suggested that as well as executions, some 2,000 monks are being held in the notorious Insein Prison or in university rooms which have been turned into cells.
There were reports that many were savagely beaten at a sports ground on the outskirts of Rangoon, where they were heard crying for help.
Others who had failed to escape disguised as civilians were locked in their bloodstained temples.
There, troops abandoned religious beliefs, propped their rifles against statues of Buddha and began cooking meals on stoves set up in shrines.
