URGENT: Army is currently entering almost all the monastries in Yangon now and shooting the people.

kpete: I do not know if this is true or not - but wanted to share the nightmare with someone

28 Sep 07, 23:17

URGENT: Army is currently entering almost all the monastries in Yangon now and shooting the people.

http://burmanews.cbox.ws/


found this from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7017496.stm#cooliris

Information from Burma has become increasingly patchy. Internet access has been cut in Rangoon and is only partially available elsewhere.

Religious sites sealed off by troops in Rangoon

Burmese sources told the BBC that international mobile phone signals have been interrupted and soldiers are searching people for cameras and mobile phones.

Dissidents have been using the internet to get pictures and video of the protests and the military crackdown to international news outlets - who then fed them back into Burma via the internet and satellite TV.


and:

Up-to-the-minute Myanmar news here.
http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/

film. Many monks hauled off to jail.

I sincerely hope this is not true.

Horrible.:cry:

but if it's not...jesus, I have no idea how it'll end.

(Rangoon, please, btw.)

of course, none of them would actually do the dirty work of facing up to those fighting FOR democracy ... they'd outsource the squashing ...

Strength to the Monks!

-Hoot

This world, this world, what the hell is wrong with it?

that china is responsible for the on going genocide in sudan and refuses to use their influence in burma to end the misery of the burmese people. why? look at a map and you`ll see that burma has a large border with burma and would love to have burma`s access to the indian ocean. remember china is our friend

The logical abilities of DUers is AMAZING.

And I think at least one of your "burma"s is supposed to be "China".

reincarnate. I can only imagine the karma that is going to redound on this criminal cartel.

I think I'll need a drink to understand that. :hi:

and metaphysical wall to keep that border secure.

Designed by Kierkegaard and Dali

I realized after I posted my comment that it sounded callous in regard to the very serious nature of what is going on. I am leaving the comment there, but make no mistake, what the "government" is doing in Burma is horrifying.

Went to France 24 to see if they had any additional info. They have some additional news and looks like they'll have interviews with some Burmese exiles later today.

One article about the internet shutdown also had a link to a site in Norway which is still managing to get info from Burma. The site is http://www.dvb.no/
There's an English version link: http://english.dvb.no/

From a report from that site I hadn't seen before:
Sep 28, 2007 (DVB)–Government security forces beat up and fired upon young students in front of a school during yesterday’s brutal crackdown on large-scale protests in Rangoon, according to witnesses.

A group of students was marching from Pansodan bridge to the high school in Tamwe township, while many other students were inside the school compound. Soldiers and government guards fired automatic weapons into the air and at chest-level to prevent marching students from reaching the school.

Just atrocious.

Here's the link to the article on France24 from which I found the Norwegian link:
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/archives/news/asia-pacific/20070928-burma-internet-broadcast-image-video-photo-manifestation-censure.html

If you put Burma in the search box there, there's additional reports.

Many thanks for the links!

Although I haven't yet found links for video on their site, I noticed some of the articles about the Japanese reporter who was killed listed DVR as the source for that video.

Hope the links help us get some info about what is going on there.
And I wish the people of Burma hope and strength in their struggle.

CBC interviewed someone from the British embassy in Rangoon this morning who said that things were ominously quiet, that many monks had been arrested and that, if they're hurt, things will go badly.

As someone who can sit comfortably at a desk and type platitudes, I would like to sincerely wish them Peace.

n/t

so sad

UN or US/NATO troops need to get in there.

We can't allow them to cut off communication from the rest of the world.

US troops are otherwise engaged at this time!
:shrug:

no way we'd send troops there.

What's Burma got that we want? Big oil? No.

So it's just one more repressive regime ruling a poor country. We didn't send troops in to get rid of Idi Amin, crazy as he was, nor Pol Pot, another interesting individual. We didn't try to end strife between Tutsis and Hutus, no profit there either. Darfur is another place that causes us to do, well, nothing.

kind of stuff the UN should be for.

ANOTHER reason I hate Republicans. They bitch about the UN being ineffective and do everything they can to undermine it so it is ineffective.

God, this whole thing makes me so angry I could spit.

We're outraged alright. And we're concerned about Darfur. We aren't going to do a damn thing about either, but we're outraged and concerned. But we're too busy trying to quell the civil war our premptive attack on Iraq started to DO anything else anywhere else.

THIS is only a part of the reason I really hate George Bush and his administration.