The Burmese junta continues to order troops to beat up monks and protesters as it cracks down on the mass demonstrations in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime). Reports coming out of Burma say that troops attacked people at a monastery in Rangoon Thursday morning and then arrested about 100 monks and laymen. An American who was in Rangoon told me this:

“Eyewitnesses said three trucks filled with soldiers arrived at the monastery at about 12:15am on September 27. When the monks refused the soldiers’ demand to open the gate, a fight broke out in which both sides hurled bricks at each other for about 20 minutes.

“The soldiers eventually crashed through the gate with one of the trucks and used bamboo sticks to beat everyone in the monastery— including monks, laymen, women and children, some of whom were related to or were under the care of the head abbot, or sayadaw.”

The beatings occured at Ngway Kyar Yan Monastery in South Okkalapa township in Rangoon. The junta killed up to eight people, including monks, earlier Wednesday.

I know this is a “blog,” but I have no commentary. Troops beating up monks. Enough said.

Photo credit: MoeMaKa Volunteer Reporters inside Rangoon
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