Burma is still Myanmar. Nonviolent revolution only works with the permission of the government in power.
"The Saffron Revolution" is over. There was never really any doubt that it would fail, although all over the world people were crossing their fingers hoping that it would.
The reason is that non-violence doesn't work and never has.
I know what you're thinking. "That moron YoursTruly is at it again with his zionist/fascist/republicanist bullshit." But it's not, and the point is still true. Nonviolence doesn't work without the permission of the "oppressors".
Gandhi is a case in point. After the Armister massicare in 1919, the British knew that something had to change in India. Thus began over twenty years of negotiations between the nationalists and the British, and since Gandhi was demanding the ethinic cleansing of all British from what would become India and Pakistan, Indian independence was postponed for over TEN Years, and over a million people were killed at independence in 1947.
The British were pro-independence for most of the time of non-violent resistance...to the British.
Then there's Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.
IN the 1940s and '50s, the Federal government supported the expansion of Civil Rights of people of color. Judges appointed by FDR, Truman and Eisonhower were at the head of the game, strikeing down segregation before the marches and the bus boycotts ever started.
Little Rock? Eisonhower sent the national guard. Alabama, JFK sent the Marines. The Federal Government wanted to end segregation as much as the Blacks did.
1989? Gorbachev announced the cessession of shooting escapees in 1988. East Germany fell because they weren't allowed to do anything. UnWILLING to shoot their own people, they gave up beforehand. Poland encouraged it, Bulgaria, of all places did too. China...well China SHOT the protesters and that was the end of that.
Look at every single successful "people power" revolution. There was sponsership by a cadre of very powerful people in the government. Look at Myanmar. The government was united. The monks never had a chance.
It has been ever thus.