UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari’s four-day shuttle diplomacy between Burma’s top generals and the country’s detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi concluded on Tuesday.

Several of the photographs of the special envoy’s meeting with Suu Kyi appeared in the international media. In some of the photographs, her face expressed grave unhappiness and sent a clear message to the world community: the generals' crack down on the Buddhist monks’ peaceful demonstrations prove UN action on Burma is urgently needed. 

Unfortunately, the body has no power to help the oppressed people of Burma by sending a mission to investigate the regime’s brutal killings, as requested by more than 200 human rights and civil society organizations in 17 countries.

How long will the civilized world ignore the notorious generals' slaughter of innocent people?