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U.S. envoy to meet Burma junta, recommend talks with opposition

By Haaretz Staff and News Agencies

The chief U.S. diplomat in Burma has been invited to meet Friday with the military-led government that orchestrated a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters last week, the State Department said Thursday.

Shari Villarosa will likely repeat the U.S. view that the regime must meet with democratic opposition groups and stop the iron crackdown on peaceful demonstrators, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington.

Meanwhile, The party of Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday conditions set by junta leader Than Shwe showed he was not serious about holding direct talks with her.

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"They are asking her to confess to offences that she has
not committed," National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Nyan Win told Reuters after state media announced Than Shwe's offer of talks if she agreed to certain conditions.

In the first official remarks since a visit by UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari this week, Than Shwe said he would hold direct talks with Aung San Suu Kyi if she publicly agreed to his conditions.

Burma's official newspaper the New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday that "foreign" elements were trying to sabotage the preparation of the state's new constitution with demonstrations.

After crushing large protests last week, the junta has begun dragging people from their homes at night and letting others know they are marked for detention.

Opposition sources in Burma said Wednesday that so far 200 to 300 monks have been killed in protests in a deadly crackdown on monks and civilians protesting steep price hikes and 45 years of brutal military rule. The sources said some 6,000 people have been arrested, including thousands of monks.

The sources said some of the monks were buried alive, while the bodies of others were burned in an open area some 25 kilometers from the capital Rangun.

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