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WORLD'S TOP DIPLOMAT TRIES DIPLOMACY WITH JUNTA

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Children reach out for used clothing from a local donor at a village destroyed by the cyclone, May 12, 2008. Photo: REUTERS / StringerS ecretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon is now in Burma, expecting to meet with chief dictator Senior General Than Shwe with hopes of changing his mind about saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of his own people. It will be an uphill battle for the Korean diplomat. Part of his itinerary for today was a tour of camps and shelters in the delta, but the survivors there say they hope he won't be visiting them. Strange? Not with this military junta, it isn't.

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