The Burmese uprising has been crushed like ice in a strawberry smoothie - cold, red and dead.

Clearly the Burmese lot would have nothing to offer by way of payment in kind for services that could be rendered by the international community and great superpowers who, let's be honest, don't get out of bed without at least a small oil deposit in sight. So the Burmese have been sacrificed just like the Zimbabweans, just like the Kurds before them and the Czechs earlier on, just like evey other poor sod out there who is not topical in the stellar constallation of international politics.

My heart bleeds for the Burmese. They knew their only weapon was spirit over matter, and in our materialised world ... spirit just does not matter.