THe Burmese government is being quite rational about the whole thing.


U.S. Diplomat:

Offer = single payment of $obledey-gook

Demand = military access

Burmese Leader:

Answer = No, we do not think you would leave.




Besides, with records/missing expected to be shoddy anyway, sweeping a few thousand political murders under the rug should be easy -- they died in the cyclone, so sad -- but they've got to get the paperwork in line.