This is the body of a *monk* found in a creek in Burma. The photos were on MoeMaKa Media, a blog covering the demonstrations.

This is a government that kills not only its own people, but also its religious leaders.

I have not put up other disturbing photographs from the crackdown, like one of a student’s brains, which were blown out of his head and lay in a gutter. But maybe if the images are strong enough, people will not be able to ignore them.

The junta claims the death toll is around 10, but the real number may be in the thousands. Hla Win, a military intelligence officer who defected from the Burmese junta after he was ordered to kill hundreds of monks, said: “Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.” Read more here.