A U.N. envoy remained tightlipped Wednesday about his meetings with Myanmar's junta chief and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, a highly watched mission that followed the regime's deadly crackdown on democracy protesters.
An eerie quiet prevailed in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, where the junta has continued with a strong show of force. Military vehicles patrolled the streets overnight blaring warnings from loudspeakers that soldiers were searching for protesters: "We have photographs. We are going to make arrests!"
Ibrahim Gambari was in Singapore Wednesday after his four-day trip to Myanmar. He and the junta's reclusive leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe sat in the same room together Tuesday for more than an hour in the remote capital of Naypyitaw. But neither side issued any comment that could satisfy the world's hopes for a halt to the junta's harsh crackdown on protesters. 
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