UN has to take a tougher stand. Mr Gambari has the be the strong messenger with unwavering message. If he is not an effective negotiator, get someone else. I agree with the posting of Lianne. Even layman like me with no negotiation or diplomatic skill can see this. Why can't the great world leaders and career diplomats in UN realize this?? Time for lip service is over. I am tired to hearing "The world is watching". We are watching all right; watching Burma sink further into the pit of hell and doing nothing about it.
Aye, U.S.A.

Aye, Hannibal, USA

I do agree with Ron,Bedford.Yes,Burmese generals deserve it.That is the only solution to solve Burmese problems.They shamelessly kill the people,they should be killed in the same way to stop more bloodshed in Burma.
Another thing is if that UN representative's that weak,ask him to serve Than Shwe cos he likes weak and brainless people around him.Tell him he's under special mission,not visiting Than Shwe to take bribe from him(U never know what Generals r offering him)

Burmese citizens, Yangon, Burma

UN is once again useless as usual. Here is one chance they have to saver their reputation and do something to save millions of people fate, and what did they do, they sent "one" guy who has no balls. Junta have already showed several times what they are capable of toward their own people. Time for the diplomacy has already passed, now it's time for the action which UN will do nothing about. How much proofs do they need to determine that this is not the good government for Burma? The lives of 47 millions people who live there fate is in this man's hand and if things go bad, UN have blood on their hand.

Sad for Burma, Lincolnshire, IL, USA

Sanctions and diplomatic straegy do little to junta. Burmese people need its own soldiers or foreign forces to overcome this regime.

Aung, Newcastle,

All Burmese know that we can't "talk" to junta. "Diplomat" is a joke to junta. We must FIGHT back; but what we got is only "bricks" to fight with guns.
All the blood shed is now in vain; all the news will soon fade away. People will finally lose their interest like 1988 uprise. We people have to suffer longer; preparing for blood shed again and again; generation after generation;
But will never ever give up!

Thida, Newcastle,

Last time mr. Gambari came to Burma and met with Ms. Su Kyi. He made a short comment that Junta were looking forward to Democracy and had improvement.
If so, how can this situation be happening.
What is his mission this time again?
I think he will go to Visit Mosque and went back to UN.
Saying "Well well well , everything is fine. General is so friendly. yangon, the whole city is quiet.""

PS. Whenever he left, the situation become worse and worse. I think this time also the lost of our life will be waste agaain.

LinLaungLwin, Singapore,

If this Mr. Gambari, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Burma is already considered weak when it comes to negotiating with the detestable Junta, why does he remain the UN's choosen representative? A nations's future free from oppression and terror rides on the back of this one person. If he's incompetent - replace him!

Surely the fact that he is already barred from meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, should mean aborting the meeting alltogether with repercussions for the Junta with immediate effect. Else all this loss of life and injuries, the desegration of the monastries and the courage of the monks and ordinary people will, once again, have been wasted by giving the Junta the impression they can do as they like.

Maybe there is not an awful lot we can do but how about small gestures. For instance, hold a meeting with all broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and resolve to not advertise any holidays to China - it won't be a huge loss of revenue but may pressurise China

Lianne, Warminster, UK

The generals have prepared for this uprising and even built a new capital away from Rangoon. How about a few cruise missiles to flatten it preferably while they are all there in bed! I don't think there would be much of a backlash from other countries. Problem solved.

Ron, Bedford, U.K.

We should boycott Chinese goods now and the OLYMPICS later. Stop talking and act. Do something positive now to make the Chinese stop supporting hatred and killing.

sara, wiltshire,

It seems clear that China holds the key to resolution of this. Unfortunately, China's hands are by no means clean and, with its own dire record on human rights, they are, evidently, much more concerned with maintaining their own trade and political connections with Burma than with going to the assistance of a few thousand irritating demonstrators.
Their weak point is also their prime showpiece - the Olympic games. An EU boycott of the games, unless China agrees to put pressure on their miserable friends in Myanmar, would hit them where it hurts and would send an unmistakeable message that big players on the international scene are expected to subscribe to the values of their trading partners. The publicity would also show the Chinese people that human rights really are an issue for the west and that failure to live up to civilised standards will cost them friends and trade

John, Lisbon, Portugal

The UN are a toothless entity. Much as I despise George Bush I would put more faith in him than the UN or Gordon Brown who is great on rhetoric but short on any action! Time to crush the generals and save the Burmese people from further torture and starvation.

jennie s, Atyrau, Kazaksthan

Is Mr. Gambari being played by the junta? Do we need a new massacre like in East Timor in order to have UN step up properly? Why should those people die in vain? Are they just going to keep the monks closed in the monestaries forever? They are supposed to receive food donations but since no one can approach, will they starve? And the US and EU are just going to watch...

Barbara, Brussels,

If Gambari & UN fails this time it would mean that the bloodshed is in vain & wasted. Not only that more innocent people will be doomed as the Junta will secretly & cruelly be suppressed. More blood will be spilled quietly for sure. I know....cause I used to live there for more than a decade.

Grande, Singapore,

If ever 'pre-emptive' military strategies are appropriate, it's now, in Burma. Why is it that 'pre-emptive' interventions are proposed in Iraq and Iran without much public consternation but when it comes to human crises like Rwanda, Sudan and Burma no intervention whatsoever is proposed?

Samuel Waumsley, Cape Town,

The whole world are known who is fare, all the evidances can be prove inhumanity by junta are sprading the whole world. Our country people are staying with fear. Their lifes are struggling every day. So.. the world what are you going to do? We pray for Mr. Gambari, he will not cheat by junta.

Daniel , Singapore, Singapore