The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
Police in Burma have fired tear gas at about 1000 protesters led by Buddhist monks as they started a march from Rangoon’s landmark Shwedagon Pagoda today, witnesses said. At least 100 people, including some monks, were thrown into police trucks as police tried to stop them joining in, witnesses said. Earlier, police at the pagoda used batons to beat hundreds of anti-junta protesters gathered there.
The full story is available here. And a photo essay on the protests is available here.
And further details at Burma Digest.
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1 Grasshopper // Sep 26, 2007 at 10:24 pm
The Irrawaddy mentioned that 3 monks were very visibly shot in Rangoon today when I checked at 4pm. It also mentioned that in various other locations, protesters and monks had been shot at and mostly wounded, but there had been some deaths.
It was from this page > http://www.irrawaddy.org/protests/BurmaProtests.php
2 Vichai N // Sep 26, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Peacefully . . . is not how the Myanmar\’s ugly oppressive politics will be resolved. And although many people will NOT outrightly say it, the only way to kick out Myanmar\’s generals is through violent force and show of massive resistance by Myanmar\’s oppressed people.
FORCE and threats of force is the only language these ugly Generals, with lineage we can trace to that really ugly General Ne Win, can understand.
The situation now at Myanmar is very explosive with the hungry very angry Burmese nation of nearly 50 million people up against the ugly generals. Blood will be shed and I think is unavoidable . . to rid Myanmar of its monstrous oppressive generals.
3 buddh•ism ad•junkt › Burma And Buddhism Updates // Sep 27, 2007 at 1:33 am
[...] also New Mandala and Danny Fisher’s blogs. The latter has a link to an online petition to support the monks. [...]
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