Burma.

Horrific photos that show the cold-blooded execution of Kenji Nagai, a Japanese journalist.

Times Online has the details, as well as a round-up of what is being done about Burma on the diplomatic front.

And the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only) has a poignant plea for help from a Burmese monk hiding in Mandalay. Excerpt:

He [the monk] emphasizes how much the protesters need support from abroad, bringing up the U.N. again and again -- almost as if by repeating the name of the international body he can will it to action. Yet he remains doubtful. "The international community, including the United Nations, cannot help us. It is very sorrowful. We are all in trouble just now. We don't know what to do. . . . We have a great hope [for] the result of the United Nations, but there is not any result. . . . International communities cannot overcome the Chinese power," he laments. China, the regime's biggest backer, has blocked tough action against the generals in the Security Council.

Upekkha thinks it would make little difference even if Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy with whom the regime has spoken in the past, is permitted to visit. "He cannot do anything here for us. He comes here again and again." As the monk spoke yesterday, Mr. Gambari was en route to Singapore, where he hoped to obtain a visa for Burma.

"The United Nations knows very well the present situation," Upekkha says. "I think they will come to our country, but maybe after we die."

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