"The junta has appointed a senior diplomat and an ex-colonel to lead the foreign ministry in Rangoon... This year the junta unceremoniously dumped its most high-profile cabinet member, Foreign Minister Ohn Gyaw, promoted a relative newcomer, Lt-Gen Tin Hla, as third deputy prime minister, and reassigned or retired nearly two dozen other senior officials. So far, none of those ousted have landed in prison. If they weren?t pushed out because of corruption, then it might have been because of incompetence. Ohn Gyaw, for one, was not regarded as particularly astute and, as a civilian, was well removed from the inner sanctum of power. The SPDC has shot its songbird, but it has not yet changed its tune..."