I think the monks could turn the tides. They're revered by the Buddhist population (most of the people in Burma). Now there's reports of the military killing a few of the monks. That's bad news for the military. This will probably be very bloody.
Let those people take care of themselves ! As we can see from their independence and after almost 20 years of democracy british supported military hunt took over the country it went all down. Whenever some world policeman wannabe intervene there is even more blood! But hey who cares for people ... let's spread democracy once more and in couple of years let's do it all over again ...