And could bring down the regime, I would think.

If the Burmese people are prevented from receiving foreign aid by the junta, it will be clear. If the junta are replaced however, what will there be left of Burma for their successors to govern ? When the dangerous situation arises, in a criminal organization known as a power vacuum.
It is also tragic that we need a disaster on a national or global scale before people feel compelled to do something about the starving, when those who starve are under our noses every day.