The Burma Border Consortium reports that 66,000 in Burma displaced in last year alone --

http://www.burmabloggers.net/?p=1011

The statistics can't get more reliable than this. TBBC feeds refugees in the camps along the Burma-Thai Border and has done so since at least 1997, when I first met Director, Jack Dunford.

You see what a weak case ICG has when it recently called for a regularization of aid on grounds that that alone would create democracy.

The junta has learned to play the game and plays it "well."

Even long time dissidents have been taken in and speak as if 2010 were some magic number.