Sands shifting under Burma's brutal regime

Excerpt from article on ABC:

by Mary O'Kane

Each night Australians sit in their lounge rooms and witness dreadful violence on the streets of Burma.

Each morning, when they pick up their daily newspaper they are confronted with pictures of dead monks, shocking beatings and great bravery from the thousands of people who have taken to the streets, protesting against a brutal government that thinks nothing of spilling the blood of its own citizens.

The Australian Government has also watched these news bulletins, read these newspapers, and seen these pictures. There is no avoiding it.

So what is the Australian Government and its international counterparts going to do to help the people who so bravely have taken to the streets in Burma, after decades of being repressed at home and dumped in the 'too hard' basket by countries that should, and could, do more?


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Has anyone seen this man, dead or alive?

If so, please email me and let me know.

A Monk's injury

The people crowd around to tend to a monk's injuries.

Monks are revered greatly in Burma, and are almost outside the law. To cause harm to a monk is considered a great sin.

And I've never seen any clergy of any country as politically active as the monks I met and spoke with in Yangon (Rangoon)

No more internet in Burma now

I can't email/call anyone I know there. Some of them are monks, and I dreadfully fear they may be imprisoned, or worse, dead.