The International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Burma to be allowed to visit a number of suspect nuclear sites and facilities.
Against this grim backdrop of greed and growing tensions, the most positive development of the year was Suu Kyi's release from house arrest a week after the election, although that is small consolation in a country that still has some 2,200 political prisoners behind bars.
But this is a time to be hopeful, so perhaps we can take some comfort in seeing the eagerness with which Burma's young welcomed Suu Kyi's return to the national political stage, and the youthful exuberance of Suu Kyi herself, despite her long years of isolation. No sooner did she reappear than she began reaching out to the world and her fellow Burmese, sometimes using technology that didn't even exist the last time she was free.
Let us hope, then, that 2010 will be the last year of Burma's era of military-scripted politics and that 2011 will usher in new possibilities, some of which are still beyond our imagining.
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