Having failed to induce change in Burma by dangling the carrot of reduced sanctions, the US is now calling for a war crimes investigation of the country?s military rulers... "Diplomatic eyebrows were raised in March when UN Special Rapporteur Tom?s Ojea Quintana issued a report recommending that the UN form an international Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. But other than the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, no country rushed to support the proposal. The silence of the US was particularly deafening, but in August the Obama administration officially threw its support behind a CoI..."