Words From Burma

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From Ko Htike’s blog via Democracy Now

To all folk, it is really bad in YGN, pLs can someone do something for our country, now inside YGN it has been look like War Zone, i even heard stooting over the phone. it is over 50 shots, right now. but people are not giving up to protest and more and more people coming out to street. they even used tear gas into primary school.

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Now, the government is trying to make a diversion. They give 10,000 kyats (around $7) & a set of Thin Gan(yellow robe) to “Swan Arr Shin”(like USDA which the form as a group that to crash down violently to protester) team and make them to pretend as Monks. Then, command to destroy the Islamic Mosque. This intends to become a fight between Buddhisms & Islams. So, if u hear or see the news that the monks are destroying the Mosque, these are not real monks. They are just fakes. As u all know, the real monks have no intention like that. So, give this information to Islams who u know and tell them

Democracy Now-

In Burma, security forces used batons, tear gas and live rounds in a violent crackdown on mass protests against the military junta. Up to eight people have been killed, including five Buddhist monks.
Hundreds of Burmese troops attempted to clear the streets of central Rangoon on Thursday, firing shots into the crowd, as the military junta intensified its two-day crackdown on the most vocal popular uprising against its rule in nearly two decades.

Thursday’s protests follow reports of overnight raids on six monasteries. According to witnesses soldiers smashed windows and doors and beat the sleeping monks. Some escaped but as many as 500 hundred monks were taken away in military trucks. Two members of the National League for Democracy, the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, were also arrested overnight. A hotel in which foreign journalists have been staying in Rangoon has also been surrounded and ransacked.

JEREMY WOODRUM: We understand that Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest as the only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the world, forty-eight hours ago was transferred from her home to Insein Prison, which is the most notorious and dangerous prison in all of Burma. The regime apparently feared that she would break out of her house arrest, which is a sort of a ridiculous claim. But she is now in a prison. I seriously doubt she’s receiving any sort of food or healthcare.

AMY GOODMAN: On the issue of blogging, this from The Guardian: the Burmese junta last night desperately tried to shut down internet and telephone links to the outside world after a stream of blogs and mobile phone videos began capturing the dramatic events on the street. In the past twenty-four hours, observers monitoring the flow of information have noticed a marked downturn with the reported closure of cyber cafes and the disconnection of mobile telephones.