Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Leave the Monks alone!!

They're under attack everywhere, it seems...

Myanmar Protests Turn Bloody

While the reports vary, things have taken a turn for the worse since yesterday as riot police have begun firing tear gas, beating protesters in the streets, and arresting hundreds of the monks. CNN reports violence and shots fired, and the AFP is currently reporting that “At least four people including three Buddhist monks were killed.”
Police opened fire and baton-charged protesters at the Shwedagon pagoda in Myanmar’s main city, but later some 1,000 monks regrouped and paraded through the streets, to the delight of thousands of onlookers.
They roared approval for the monks and shouted at security forces: “You are fools! You are fools!”

2 comments:

Fungster said...

Myanmar? Is that in like, China or India or something? (that is an actual question I got today.)

Corms said...

And you responded, "makes know difference, it's only a bunch of dark blips living there."