Saffron Line
Reports of four to eight beaten or shot to death in Burma, including several monks and a Japanese national, and raids on monasteries. AFP:
Two of the monks were beaten to death while another was shot when he tried to wrestle a gun away from a soldier and the weapon discharged, two senior Myanmar officials told AFP.
They said the monks were killed near Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar’s holiest site and a key rallying point for the clergy who have led nine days of protests which have spread across the Southeast Asian nation.
A fourth man, who was not a monk, was shot dead, a hospital source said.
CNN: Japanese citizen killed. Heavy military sweep clears streets. I’m listening to BBC and they say its all still going on, however. You’ll want to check Beeb’s photo gallery. BBC reports overnight raids on a number of monasteries.
Topics: asia
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:18 am on Thursday, September 27, 2007
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September 27th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
The international caring and sharing set will be right there to…
OK, they will severely castiga…
Never mind.
Full credit to the Beeb though. Wish they could report some other conflicts with the same cool professional detachment.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
If the government admits to four or five killed, I wonder how many really died.
V of the C: The BBC can afford their professional detachment only because it doesn’t involve a western country.