Myanmar Continues to Struggle, Hope for Democracy

(25 Jan 09 - RV) U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari will visit military-ruled Myanmar later this week, to try to revive negotiations between the junta and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Last August, Gambari failed twice to meet the Nobel peace laureate, who has been under house arrest for most of the past five years. The East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Ben Rogers told us the humanitarian situation in Myanmar continues to be serious, more than a year after Cyclone Nargis killed at least 150 thousand people and caused billions of dollars of damage to the country, which is ruled by an oppressive military junta…