Below are some Burma links with the latest news…

* The Scotsman:

A SPLIT within Burma’s ruling junta has emerged, with second-in-command General Maung Aye angered at the violent crackdown ordered by leading General Than Shwe and holding talks with imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, it has been reported.
The Irrawaddy, a dissident news magazine with a strong track record of correctly reporting the internal machinations of the junta, reported yesterday that Aung San Suu Kyi had been moved from house arrest to Yemon military camp on the outskirts of Rangoon.

* The AP has a useful “program” on the junta.

* Reuters: West vows to get tough on Myanmar junta – but how?

* Washington Post:

A U.N. special envoy flew to Burma for discussions with the country’s entrenched military government Saturday, seeking to resolve a bloody political uprising that has generated worldwide demands for the generals to halt their repression and make way for democratic reforms.
The protests that for nearly two weeks have rocked Burma’s two main cities, Rangoon and Mandalay, were reduced to knots of youths shouting insults at thousands of armed police and soldiers who have been deployed on the streets to smother the campaign, according to Internet reports Saturday from Burmese activists and exile groups in neighboring Thailand. The Buddhist monks who had been leading the protesters — and inspiring them with their revered status in Burmese society — were blocked inside monasteries for the second day in a row, surrounded by army troops and frightened by a wave of arrests, the reports said.
The U.N. envoy for Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, landed in Rangoon and continued on to Naypyidaw, the isolated official capital 250 miles to the north that was chosen two years ago as headquarters for the ruling State Peace and Development Council headed by Senior Gen. Than Shwe, according to news agencies. The Singapore foreign minister, George Yeo, said in New York that Gambari’s mission was the best hope for a peaceful end to the crisis and movement toward a political transformation after nearly half a century of military dictatorship.