Is there any way, after the Burmese army's massacre of students in Aug 1988 and the military junta's abrogation of the results of the 1990 elections which favoured democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, that the US and other Western countries could've pressured in the UN Security Council for effective military intervention against the junta for this denial of the right to democracy/self-determination and other atrocities committed against the ppls of Burma ? Would there have been any point during the 1990s that Washington would've decided that a humanitarian intervention in Burma was in its best interests, perhaps tying in the junta's role in protecting the drug trade (opium/heroin and metamphetamines) in the Golden Triangle ? Perhaps mounting a similar military op to RESTORE DEMOCRACY in Haiti (Sept 1994) ? Or would the PRC, as Burma's strongest backer in the UN, have just vetoed any such assertive international action, and the US and allies been compelled to undertake military action without the SC's sanctioning ?